Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial, Savinkov himself testified that he did not know exactly what the money was to be used for, and even the official Soviet history of Czechoslovakia published in 1960 did not accuse Masaryk, a gentle, scholarly man, of plotting to kill Lenin. The charge was clearly a clumsy canard thrown in to aid Moscow's psychological warfare being waged against the Dubcek regime...
...trouble began two weeks ago, when authorities abruptly closed the Nanterre College of Letters, a suburban branch of the 150,000-student University of Paris, because a small band of Maoist, Marxist, Trotskyite and Guevarist militants had thrown the campus into a turmoil with strikes and threats of gang war. Next day the Nanterre leftists streamed into Paris' Latin Quarter, began demonstrating in the Sorbonne campus quadrangle...
...increasing political activism and introspection is like the ripples of a stone thrown into a stream. But if that stone is big enough to redirect the stream's current, changes beyond the fighting and dying in Vietnam will take place...
...touch off intramural violence by trying to dislodge the demonstrators. A fight did break out between some 40 of the burly "jocks," who had set up a blockade to starve out the occupants of Low Library, and 40 youths, mainly Negroes, trying to send in food. The attackers were thrown back, causing one of the school's disillusioned football fans to note that "it's probably the first time Columbia has ever held a line." Kirk was also aware of rumors that militant Harlem residents were vowing to "burn Columbia down...
Kennedy had hoped to take more than 45 per cent of the vote in the three-way fight. A vote of over 50 per cent would have seriously injured McCarthy's chances for the nomination and would have thrown a cog in Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's delegate-gathering bandwagon...