Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wallace, 39, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam") and a defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate last year, had been fighting efforts of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before the Johnson order...
...traits as well as the name. Says one Alabama lawyer: "If you have a good case, you don't have to worry. The judge will rule with you. If you don't have a case, you don't have to worry either. He'll throw it out before you unpack your briefcase...
...Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama, last week introduced housing bills that would go further than the Administration wants toward stepping up federal aid. The Rains bill, for example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down-payment requirements while stretching out mortgage repayments to 35 years...
...There is much merit in trying to make some sort of argument in long essays," O'Neil, a former grader in History 164, explained. "In an exam the student is attempting to show the grader how much he knows; he can't just throw in raw facts...
Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...