Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that inane reverse-and double-reverse Gaston-and-Alphonse jig that Lyndon and Aleksei trotted out, what would have happened if the surveyor had missed the halfway point by a hundred feet? Would they have thrown up a tent in the backyard and torn up poor old Tom Robinson's rose garden? Honestly...
...more than a year after their acquisition the Soviet Union was fighting with Britain and the United States against Germany, and Stalin was hailed in the West as an ally and hero. In this atmosphere library officials were not anxious to have the archives of Stalin's arch-enemy thrown open for public inspection. For more than five years the papers lay in a locked vault in the basement of Widener and no one was allowed to make use of them. Only after a formal decision by the Harvard Corporation were the papers removed from the vault and made accessible...
...female vigilantes armed with straight razors have stationed themselves as "morality guards" in public places. They stand ready to slash stitches and drop offending hems at the least excuse. Just as if miniskirts were difficult to spot, Zambian girls are often stopped and ordered to pick up a penny thrown on the sidewalk-if the man from U.N.I.P. sees too much leg, out comes the razor. To go with their altered clothes, the girls are handed a printed pamphlet of Kaunda's thoughts on Humanism, which is considered enlightening, even though it never mentions miniskirts...
...began. Now the radio read out the code names of the remaining units: Love of Zion, Close Shave, Men of Work, Alternating Current, Open Window, Good Friends. Throughout the tiny nation, youths and middle-aged men scrambled into the streets, half in uniform, half in mufti, bundles and knapsacks thrown over their shoulders as they headed for their prearranged secret rendezvous with buses...
...deposed Dynamite Man was already a hero. And Ecuadorian politics being what they are, he confidently expects to be sent to Congress in the next election in June 1968. After all, he says, he never should have been thrown out of the Assembly. "That wasn't dynamite on the desk," he insists. "It was just two tubes of sand, and I have a police affidavit to prove...