Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned to the neighborhood for another try, a mob of 7,000 whites taunted them with curses, threw volleys of rocks, bottles and eggs. Injured: March Leader Martin Luther King, who was struck on the head by a rock and was narrowly missed by a switchblade knife that was thrown at him but gashed the shoulder of another demonstrator instead. Said King: "I have to do this-to expose myself-to bring this hate into the open...
...counter the plan, General William Westmoreland ordered a massive spoiling operation. It was called Operation Hastings, and it involved nine battalions of U.S. Marines, the largest number ever thrown into any combat in Viet Nam, together with sizable South Vietnamese army and marine units. When it got under way fortnight ago, the total allied strike force numbered 11,000 men. It was a daring, defiant and, by its very nature, often disorderly operation. Into the dense river valleys and high mountains, marines were lifted by helicopter to begin a sweep through a 300-mile crescent of land, destroying Communists...
...result from car crashes. "If you have your seat belt fastened and drive into a stone wall at 15 m.p.h.," says O'Donnell, "the car will be a mess but there won't be much damage to you. If you do that on a motorcycle, you get thrown against the brick wall, which is ruinous to flesh and bone." Since the rider is usually projected headfirst, like a missile, says Manhattan's Dr. Robert H. Kennedy, the most severe and common injuries, those that cause 70% of the deaths, are to the head. A properly designed helmet...
...Doors Swing Open. As expected, such visions of justice undone also moved many a police chief and prosecutor. Maryland State's Attorney Charles E. Moylan Jr. insisted that the decision means "a large number of cases awaiting trial in Maryland will be thrown out." Others worried that cases already decided would now be reopened -even though the court had yet to rule on whether its guidelines will apply retroactively. New York's Police Commissioner Howard J. Leary argued that "there is being developed sophisticated law for an immature society"; a police chief in Garland, Texas, complained...
...finest athletes. It may have been for some -- sprinter Aggrey A word, for example, during his senior year. And yet, Coach John Yovicsin says that none of his married players have stopped their college football or have been hampered in their style. Not one married junior varsity player has thrown in the towel either...