Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately valuable information on Quincy House was lacking when the data had to be thrown to the hungry computers. We can only regret this incalculable loss.--Ed. Disapprove U.S. Policy in Vietnam per cent Adams 99 Lowell 98 Kirkland 96 Dudley 93 Leverett 92 Dunster 90 Eliot 89 Winthrop...
...heavily damaging five other craft. But there were no allied deaths, and within hours the runways were repaired and the base fully operative again. In another attack, some 5,000 Communists tried to overrun two U.S. forward positions in the Que Son Valley south of Danang. They were thrown back in two days of heavy fighting, losing nearly 400 dead. Altogether, by week's end the Communists had sacrificed an estimated 2,000 men without gaining a significant victory...
...with the Seals since they arrived in Viet Nam 21 months ago. In some 600 missions, nearly all of them furtive forays into Communist-held areas, they have laid waste Communist installations (including 70 rivercraft, more than 200 bridges, factories and other structures, and at least 200 fortified positions), thrown the Communists off balance and killed more than 175 Communist soldiers and captured 60 while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams are operating inside South Viet Nam. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that...
...practiced law for a couple of years, and after World War II duty, took a teaching job at Yale. He was thrown into commercial and admiralty law because that was what the school happened to need. It has been his field ever since. His book on admiralty law, co-authored with Charles Black, is today a standard text, and he was one of the architects of the massive Uniform Commercial Code, which now applies in most states...
...ordinary, honorable components get obstinately blurred, resolutely thrown out of focus by an author who mistakes his vices for his virtues. Almost as if to cover up the honest banality of his basic theme, Orlovitz, 49, has laid on the obscurantism of a great prose experiment. He has succeeded only in substituting conventions of technique for conventions of content...