Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more angry headlines, the Eiffel society announced that they would heighten the barrier to ten feet. Would that stop would-be suicides? Shrugged the official in charge of tower safety: "There is only one solution: dismantle the Eiffel Tower piece by piece. Then suicide candidates would have to throw themselves into the Seine...
...than any actors reading from scripts. For the past month, in collaboration with Behavioral Psychologist Jerry Berlin, WAOK has brought together random groups of Atlanta Negroes and invited them to cut loose in undirected and virtually uncensored sessions of psychodrama. The participants, playing the most transparent kind of "roles," throw themselves into their own characters, fight, plead, argue, boast, complain and despair about everything from the V.C. to V.D. Put on tape and aired in varying spots throughout the day under the program name Family Line, the vignettes give a sharp, thoroughly unprettified glimpse into American Negro life...
...what's happening to their dollars." She feels that the U.S. should put more effort into winning the Viet Nam war more quickly ("I'm not as scared of China as some people are"), calls for more steps to stop inflation. Moreover, she seems able to throw a continuous barrage of barbs at Claiborne Pell, whom she calls a "curlyheaded croquet player from Newport." Referring to Pell's good looks, she says: "I concede that if the election were on the basis of looks, I would lose. My campaign managers wanted me to do something with...
...communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore lie the lovely rolling hills of Natal, whose citizens claim the soil is so rich that "if you throw seeds into your garden when you go to bed, you won't be able to see out of your window in the morning...
Lots of Sweat. There are a few spoilsports around the National League who insist that Perry's sudden prowess is due to another magic ingredient. "You want to bet $100 he doesn't throw a spitball?" challenges Cardinal Rightfielder Mike Shannon. The Giants, of course, deny it (though Perry slyly admits, "I do sweat a lot out there"). "He's a suspect to start with," says Farm Club Director Carl Hubbell. "Because he's having a helluva year, they all complain that he's got to be doing something funny...