Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guns, came to the rescue almost at once. If the Viet Cong had lain low while the Hueys picked up the downed H13 crew, they might still have escaped the bother that was soon to follow. In stead the Reds shot down the Hueys too, and the gauntlet was thrown...
This is not a silent film, but most crises are followed by melodramatic reaction shots. Count the seconds whenever an interlocutor throws hands in air. One of Hamlet's reactions, after he's thrown down his mother in her chamber, lasts even after a cut. When Hamlet asks Ophelia, "Shall I lie in your lap?" we cut to a bevy of damsels cowering in unison like chorines...
...Munro will prepare a report on the history of the University's relationship to the Selective Service system with emphasis on last term's controversy and submit it in October to the Faculty; the issue will probably be debated in either November or December, when the floor will be thrown open to general discussion...
...brightest spot on the defense was the performance by Harvard's two inexperienced but quick safeties, Bill Tyson and Tom Williamson. This fellow Marshall had thrown eight long touchdown passes in the last 41/2 games last year, but Saturday he could muster only 120 yards and no touchdowns. He also had two passes intercepted, one by Tyson on the goal line to halt a Lafayette drive...
...first day at school, Rudi got up from his desk and began putting on his coat. "What are you doing?" the teacher demanded. "Thank you very much," he replied, "but I have had enough." He wasn't kidding. In the years following, he was, by his own admission, "thrown out of every school in Austria. I absolutely hated school-all that stupid talk." Aloof even then, he was dubbed "the irritable Christ" by his mother. At 14, he finally convinced his father, chairman of the board of the Austro-Hungarian steel trust, that he should be tutored privately...