Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muster a majority in Florida's May 3 Democratic primary. Instead, he stuck out his chin. In last week's run off for the party's nomination for Governor, he first threw away the votes of a lot of rural whites. Then he proceeded to throw away the votes of a lot of urban Negroes. That still left plenty of Floridians, but not enough to save the presumably entrenched political pro from disaster...
...from which they can jump off for trouble spots on short notice. Mobility will get its biggest boost with the introduction in about three years of the C-5A, a transport capable of carrying 700 troops at 550 m.p.h. One hundred C-5A sorties would enable the Pentagon to throw 70,000 troops into any trouble spot in a few days. Soldiers will take only light equipment, will "marry up" with prepositioned heavy materiel stockpiled near the scene of the action...
...ordination to the priesthood, Father Charles Coughlin, 74, silenced by Edward Cardinal Mooney in 1940 at F.D.R.'s behest, held a press conference at his rectory in Royal Oak, Mich., and allowed: "I understand more about charity than I did 40 years ago. Who am I to throw stones? Now it is to me simply: my President, right or wrong...
...knowledge has ever figured out the plot of The Big Sleep, so by that comparison--an obvious one in many ways--Harper's complexities are kid's stuff. But while nothing is left unclear, the first 90 minutes throw out so many loose threads that the remaining 30 can only provide a solution as complex and confusing as the mystery. Partly this is by intention; Harper ends on an effective gimmick which justifies and explains its earlier intricacies...
Whether he can throw many Negro votes their way is questionable. Boothe, in virtually every speech this month, has reminded his audience that he voted in 1959, as a state senator, for the plan which reopened public schools closed during a desegregation crisis, while Byrd Jr. voted against the proposals. (The plan passed the State Senate by one vote.) Robertson has consistently opposed civil rights legislation during his '33 years in Congress...