Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge the function of ROTC and its role in U.S. imperialism by posing the issue in academic terms is in effect to sanction that function. For in the end, ROTC stays on campus or it is thrown off. If it stays, in any form, it continues to provide junior officers for the U.S. military; it is this military that is engaged in the suppression of popular revolutions throughout the world and in the quelling of Black rebellions at home...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT are two one-acters by Harold Pinter. In Tea Party, Sisson, a manufacturer of bidets, is thrown into a catatonic state at an office tea party by the ambiguous relationships of his family and his secretary. The Basement is about a man and his girl friend who move in to share an old chum's flat...
...part on its willingness to accommodate a wide and sometimes mettlesome variety of religious and ethnic patterns. If these two minorities, black and Jew ? each with its distinctive and essential contributions to American society ? cannot get along, then the viability of the American experiment in pluralism is thrown into doubt. Thus, the conflict takes on symbolic values far more threatening than its actual substance...
...Faculty also refused to adopt Dean Ford's motion, affirming for the time being, existing attendance rules. Meetings probably will not be thrown open immediately to the public, but it now seems likely that student observors will soon be allowed to listen to crucial Faculty debates. Yesterday's hour-and-a-half discussion suggests that many Faculty members are responding to a substantive issue raised by the Paine Hall demonstration and now being pressed by SFAC and are questioning the convention of closed meetings that has stood for years supported by little more than habit...
...problems seemed most unusual. First, there was technical trouble. British engineers developed steam-turbine engines 72 years ago, but the steam turbines on the Queen went awry. The casings did not allow enough room for normal heat expansion of the 10-ft. rotor blades, and the engines were thrown out of balance. As a result, speeds had to be cut from a normal 28½ knots to 14 knots. Sometimes they dropped as low as one knot...