Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he sometimes calls "Northern bigotry." There, in a 40-hour whirlwind, he shook the hands of all Democratic factotums and factions, talked tactical politics with New York State Chairman Michael Prendergast and Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio. He rubbed shoulders with Negro and white officials in a reception thrown by New York's Mayor Wagner, made a speech to the largest Roman Catholic men's club in Brooklyn, conferred with wealthy Wall Streeters, and in total, stomped a path that would have done credit to Jeb Stuart...
...Wilsons' move was as thoughtfully preplanned as any other project in Park Forest. Unlike nearby Deerfield, which was thrown into panic at the sudden prospect of a Negro influx (TIME, Dec. 7), Park Forest years ago arranged a course of action for peaceful integration. As soon as it became known that Charles Wilson intended to move in, he was met by a seven-man Commission on Human Relations and questioned about his job, the size of his family, whether or not he was a member of any active pressure groups (he was not). Then two-man teams moved through...
Rescue by Theory. In 1905 Albert Einstein announced his Special Theory of Relativity, and rescued physics from the confusion into which it was thrown by loss of the ether. In the new world of Einstein, the speed of light itself was established as the only dependable constant. Thus, to an observer, the speed of light would remain the same, whether the observer was approaching the light's source or speeding away from it. With light doing duty as the universe's basic constant, the ether was no longer needed as a theoretical frame of reference...
...director of the School of Sociology of Chile's Catholic Pontifical University. The church's difficulties, says the Rev. Roger E. Vekemans in the weekly Ave Maria, began in the 19th century after the Latin American countries achieved independence from Spain and Portugal and thus were thrown open to such influences as Protestantism, spiritism and plain materialism...
...Angeles' annual Las Madrinas debutante ball, 33 debs were thrown into the maw of Old Angeleno society. Few father-daughter couples were as dashingly smooth, however, as the old hoofer him self, Fred Astaire (who hates to wear tails), and winsome...