Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private dinner for New York Republican legislators. Over fish and French white wine, he heard more warnings about the dangers of standing pat. By way of response, he said: "I have been accused of dividing the party once [in 1964]. I don't want that ever thrown in my face again." And he again conceded his willingness to be drafted. "But there's a question of how you define a draft," he told his fellow New Yorkers. "I'm going to be thinking about that...
...students involved kicked out. Their arguments ranged from judicious concerns--no issue, even the Vietnam war, is important enough to override anyone's civil liberties--to moral righteousness--it's time those kids were taught a lesson. At the opposite pole one professor proclaimed that if they were thrown out, he went too, while many others vigorously supported the students' actions without making them their own. One group was terribly concerned that the University family would be torn apart on the issue and that the students and their faculty would end up more as antagonists than as pupils and teachers...
...besiegers, or even put out sufficient reconnaissance patrols to determine the size and deployment of the Communist armies arrayed around them. Nor can the U.S. and the South Vietnamese be sure how many enemy forces, the remnants of the original wave of attackers, remain hidden inside the rings hastily thrown around the cities and towns. In Saigon, the problem is particularly acute, since the size and effectiveness of this fifth column might well determine the outcome of any major Communist thrust...
...details of the death of Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's only child by his first marriage. As a 33-year-old artillery lieutenant, Yakov was taken prisoner near Smolensk in World War II's early days. Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov's Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin's second marriage, remembers that her brother Vasily (who died in a drunken auto accident in 1962) brought home handbills bearing a picture of Yakov that the Germans had dropped...
Check. Applies to all means, legal or otherwise, of breaking up an attack. Basic is the body check, which is similar to a football block and carries some of the same restrictions: it cannot be thrown from behind or below the knee. Also it can only be leveled at the man with the puck. Cross-checking, or rapping a player with the stick lifted completely off the ice, is patently illegal. Legal defensive moves include poke checking, which is simply an attempt to jab the puck free, and hook checking, which is usually a desperation gambit-the off-balance defender...