Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal tendencies, anger over his current attacks on Nixon. He shrugs them off, maintaining brightly that he has a good chance of getting the nomination on the fourth or fifth ballot. His confidence gets him over spots that would trip a man without it. Nixon, for instance, can be thrown off stride. In Newark recently, a tongue-tied toastmaster introduced "the next President of the United States, Snik Dix?er?Dick Nixon." Result: the candidate's delivery fell off. In a similar situation, Rockefeller might have guffawed...
...bush, the Green Berets still handle some of the toughest chores of the war. Special Forces "C and C" teams venture on missions "over the mountain"-reconnaissance forays into Laos and Cambodia that are classified and not talked about. "Mike-forces," elite irregulars under Special Forces officers, are sometimes thrown into hazardous actions where regular Vietnamese...
...scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused to cross the picket lines thrown up by striking members of the National Football League's Players Association. But that crisis was averted when Toots Shor agreed to act as water boy for both teams...
...words are cheap this year. Where's the nitty-gritty beneath all the verbiage? Underneath the asparagus tree written in the tea leaves I see the words: JESUS SAVES. So, appropriately, I pray to be saved, to be delivered from the tedium of the lecture halls, to be thrown out into the real world where real things happen to fleshandblood people. But soft, a voice harkens unto me: SON, FORGET IT. "It ain't so great to be on the outside," the logic flows, "stay awhile and be protected by mother Harvard." And so I remain ambivalent, undecided, shuttling...
...predicament, Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation helped underwrite a habeas corpus petition. On the narrow legal ground that he was allowed to plead guilty without having been informed that he could have attacked the sodomy law constitutionally, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out Cotner's conviction by a 2-to-l vote. He is now free, after having served three years of his sentence, and is living with his grandmother in Illinois...