Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notably precise-at a maximum range of about seven miles, gunners are lucky if they hit within 400 yards of their target-but the lack of accuracy, if anything, enhances their terrorist effect. Despite allied ground and air patrols and radar-guided counterbattery fire, the Communists have thrown almost 400 rocket and mortar rounds at the capital since early May. The gunners have rarely been caught; last week, when 12,000 U.S. and Vietnamese troops fanned out to sterilize the rocket belt, they found little besides scarred firing positions and a few unlaunched missiles, some ingeniously cached in submerged sampans...
Though he gained plenty of ground in filmland since leaving football (eight pictures so far), Jim Brown, 32, once the terror of the N.F.L., was thrown for a loss after a scrimmage in Hollywood. Investigating reports of loud screaming in Brown's apartment, two deputies were blocked at the door by the 6-ft. 2-in., 225-lb. fullback. "If you're coming in, you're going to have to go over me," snarled Brown and, said the deputies, straight-armed one officer seven feet back into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense...
...that Bell had asked for. The FCC thereupon ordered interstate phone rates cut by $120 million, or about 3%. After a vigorous appeal, Bell got the FCC to temporarily suspend $20 million of the cut. Two weeks ago, A.T. & T. petitioned to have the $20 million thrown out altogether to compensate for the recent wage settlement and other rising costs...
...well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker," a low-ranking track factotum who cools down horses after the run. Then he got thrown from a horse, suffering head and back injuries...
Someone had thrown up a wall against the future, and suddenly 1968 was snatched away. Suddenly it became June, and there you were with the war that you told everyone you hated. And a government you never knew had decided your future for you. That was lousy and undemocratic, and back in your mind you remembered that the same thing had happened to people in Vietnam and in America and all over the world. And maybe it was an irrational reaction, but you hated your country for what it did and you didn't want to be a part...