Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Churchill: "I do not throw in my lot with those who say that Britain should leave the U.N. But it is certain that if the Assembly continues to take its decisions on grounds of enmity, opportunism, or purely jealousy and petulance, the whole structure may be brought to nothing." As a man who stoutly backed the ill-fated Egyptian adventure of his successor Sir Anthony Eden, Churchill to this day (like many Britons) deplores the part the U.N. played in halting the war short of victory, and he has always thought it unrealistic to give as much weight...
...ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw it boldly along the city's outskirts, with an open prospect of unspoiled countryside. Binding together the 30 individual houses was a curtain wall modeled on a Palladian façade with its Ionic columns; behind it, Wood allowed for a variety in depth to the buildings to suit each...
...death two months later, is still alive, a full member of the Central Committee and the only living ex-NKVD boss. * Khrushchev's answer, delivered last week in Czechoslovakia: "On a hungry stomach, Marxist-Leninism may be very difficult to un derstand. It is not wrong to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx...
...shared a room during his freshman year with Adlai Stevenson's second son John Fell, Khan is a member of Harvard's exclusive Hasty Pudding Club and a straight A student who majors in Oriental history and grinds hard. "He doesn't throw his weight or his dough around," says one of his classmates. In fact, to some other Harvardmen he was just a "nice guy whose name is Cohen or Kahn or something like that...
...election day approached once again in Dublin, the opposition Fine Gael Party sought a way to defeat Mayor Briscoe, who belongs to Premier de Valera's Fianna Fail. Playing both sides against the middle, Fine Gael forsook its own candidate to throw its electoral weight behind a promising independent and thereby make sure that Mayor Briscoe failed to get the clear majority of the corporation votes which he needed for reelection. The result was another tie vote, 21 to 21, so into the hat once again went Briscoe's name, together with that of the independent candidate-City...