Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dodge; a total of 40 SAMs was fired last week. In addition, the Communists have developed a new technique that cuts the warning time that U.S. pilots formerly had when a missile was on its way. But the main menace is still the lethal curtains of conventional antiaircraft fire thrown up from thousands of sites, and which account for 90% of American plane losses...
Foreign contractors and advisers proposed roads, schools, power plants, harbors and sewage systems. Shakhbout always refused. In one rare moment of weakness, he agreed to build a modern hospital, then later refused to equip it. Merchants who called on the sheik to ask payment of long-standing debts were thrown out of the palace. When Shakhbout's 600-man police force protested about overdue pay, he fired half the force...
...latest uprising was the work of Northern Moslems, acting to avenge the Southern-led January coup that had thrown them out of power and killed many of their leaders. It was also designed to forestall another coup, which dissatisfied Southern Ibos had reportedly been plotting against the regime they had put in power. The Southern gripe was simple: Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, an Ibo himself, had proved too soft on the Northerners...
...arms outstretched, gazes down on Rio from Corcovado, would be able to do much about Brazil's endemic sin of inflation. In one 31-month period, the cost of living soared an astronomical 340%, and in 1964 alone, the year that free-spending João Goulart was thrown out, it was heading up 150%. Yet when President Humberto Castello Branco took over, he confidently vowed to achieve stability in just two years...
...Defense Secretary asked Mollenhoff to leave a press conference, noting that he had already asked three questions. "You dodged three times," replied the uncowed Mollenhoff. "You seem to dodge everything, Mr. Secretary." Exploded McNamara: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks you have thrown at me for five years." Three days later McNamara was off on a Swiss skiing vacation, by presidential order. Muttered L.B.J. to aides: "He ought to know better than to tackle that s.o.b...