Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation applied military power with more painstaking precision and reasoned restraint than the U.S. has in its bombing of North Viet Nam. The only targets that U.S. pilots may attack are the enemy's men and materiel heading south, the roads and trails they take and the weaponry thrown at American aircraft. From prestrike photo reconnaissance to leaflet warnings dropped in advance, every effort is made to avoid hitting civilians and residential areas. Nowhere is the effort greater than around Hanoi, the Red capital, currently home to some 300,000 people. It was precisely because U.S. accuracy had been...
...hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search of refuge. The girl, pregnant and unwed, has been thrown out by her father. The lawyer has killed a white man during a civil rights march...
Once the election has been thrown into the legislature, the legislators may support either candidate they wish -- no matter how the people of their district voted. In this case, the overwhelmingly rural-Democratic Georgia legislature will undoubtedly support Maddox, even though Callaway had a slight plurality in the general election...
...remains to be seen whether the Georgia decision will mean a slackening of the effort to destroy the power of malapportioned, rural-dominated state governments. The Court has already thrown out Georgia's county unit system, which assigned counties of wildly disproportionate population the same weight in deciding a state-wide election, and effectively gave the state's farm areas many times the political power of the more populous urban centers...
...before the Board, all sorts of complications arise. Should he be allowed to bring witnesses, a lawyer, a jury of peers, petitions, weeping mothers, and his constitutional rights? As one member of the Board put it, these suggestions become less and less far-fetched as the consequences of being thrown out of college become a certain ticket to the Army...