Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "picking which ballet he will do has become one of the greatest spectator sports since strip poker." Last week the great ballet master materialized for the first time this season-in the title role of his ballet Don Quixote-fluttering the audience like a stone thrown among pigeons. Sighed Barnes: "A legitimate thrill such as hearing Mozart play Mozart...
...when conditions were all in his favor. Now he has very obligingly congregated in the heart of the cities and sits there waiting to be wiped out. As long as the enemy stayed in the jungle he had all the edge. Now for some stupid reason he has thrown it all away. When Hanoi realizes what a fiasco this operation is, they may very well call off the intended offensive in the North...
...receive $7,956 after three years' service. But DeLury, apparently unable to sell those terms to his men, demanded $600. After sporadic negotiations, the union staged a wild rally at city hall two weeks ago, virtually forced DeLury to call a strike. Said he, ducking an egg thrown at him: "I accept the motion...
...According to Johnson's projection, the G.N.P. would still rise more than 7%, to about $846 billion. Of the total, about 4% would reflect genuine gains, with the remaining 3% attributable to inflation. Without the tax bill's restraining influence, the Administration believes, these estimates would be thrown off completely...
...Christina Olson many times, cradling a kitten in her arms, or sitting on her porch. He painted her house 50 times, and an upstairs room in it in Wind from the Sea, which shows the curtains billowing as Wyeth once saw them, when a long-closed window was suddenly thrown open. His last portrait, titled Anna Christina, was completed last summer...