Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, when New York City Welfare Commissioner Mitchell I. Ginsberg emphatically endorsed Kennedy's position by telling the subcommittee that the present welfare system should be "thrown out," Javits retorted angrily: "You'd better not be in too much of a hurry to talk that way, or you may get it thrown out right now. There are many in Congress who want just that." New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller seconded Javits. "It's easy to criticize," he said of Bobby. "But Congress sets the standards. Why doesn't he suggest some new legislation...
...that mean that Ky would be the ruling generals' military candidate against the five civilians who have so far thrown their hats into the ring? Yes, said Ky: "There will be no other military candidate." As for General Nguyen Van Thieu, Chief of State and Ky's chief rival among the generals, Ky said: "I will never oppose him, but I do not think General Thieu will run." Then he added thoughtfully: "Although nothing is certain in Viet...
...mean I recognized the goddam kid right away. He's my Jewish-Indian literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
Williams' best-known research project has resulted in the development of a powerful new insecticide. While studying the juvenile hormone which controls the maturing of an insect, Williams discovered that if this hormone is present at the time of maturation, the insect's normal growth process is thrown off balance. The insect then usually dies...
...famous soliloquy had been blacked out of the subtitles. Storming into the projection booth, he was confronted by six guards. "That's my film!" Strick cried. "You've mutilated it, and you've got to stop the projection!" There was a struggle, and Strick was thrown out of the booth. Limping back to his balcony seat on a twisted ankle, he screamed, "Stop the projection! My film has been mutilated!" The picture continued to the end amid a riotous shouting contest in the audience...