Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson also owes it to Humphrey. The Vice President has cheerfully taken on every conceivable chore, social, ceremonial and substantive, political and diplomatic, that Johnson has thrown at him. Along with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Humphrey has been one of the most persistent champions of the Administration's Viet Nam policy, even though his advocacy cost Humphrey dearly among his fellow liberals. Humphrey has been accused of being Johnson's "water boy," of playing Robin to the President's Batman, of "betraying the liberal movement," of being more militaristic than the generals. The latest attack came last week from...
...channel in unbroken blue ice 14 inches thick. It also knifed 180° turns as though the ice were butter. Running at speeds from 21 to 31 knots, the tug accelerated easily in thinner ice because there was no friction along the sides of the barge - the Alexbow had thrown all the troublesome chunks clear...
...Axel Springer, whose papers are critical of the student leftists, police asked them to disperse, then went to work on them with bruising water cannon and truncheons. The students were not used to seeing their own blood flow, and many, moreover, were deeply shocked by the death from rioter-thrown missiles of Associated Press Photographer Klaus Frings, 32, and Munich Student Ruediger Schreck...
...gods have retreated to unawesome, half-deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who "offers us present security, four-and-a-half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth. Updike is forthright about his purpose. "There's a lot of dry talk around about love and sex being somehow the new ground...
...song, dance, pagentry, stage effects, and the spoken word--a truly bastard form of entertainment. This particular work is a castrated adaption of A Midsummer Night's Dream liberally interspersed with incidental music in the form of solo songs, ensembles, choruses, and instrumental pieces. With taste and dramatic rectitude thrown to the winds, extravagance is its only excuse and sole salvation--co-authors W. Shakespeare and H. Purcell notwithstanding...