Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retorted Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair man Earle G. Wheeler: "If you stop bombing North Viet Nam, in effect you throw one of your blue chips for negotiation over your shoulder...
...Federal Government's first comprehensive attack on the problems of metropolitan areas, which now contain 70% of the nation's people, are expected to double in population by the end of the century. If he takes his job seriously, even with wads of federal cash to throw around, he will have a tough time...
...Painting is my language," says Baruchello, son of an Italian lawyer. Neither pop nor op, his vocabulary is intellectual, full of hints-a Proustian complex of personal remembrance. And he inscribes his nib's nuances as if they were the scientific jiggling track of his own electroencephalograph. "To throw a pot of paint at a canvas is not my language," he says. "Images are like sounds-complicated. We communicate in complicated sounds. I communicate in com plicated images...
Clothes Made the Lady. All his long life Shaw was hung up on two things-money and women. He did not make his own living until his 30th year. ("I did not throw myself into the struggle for life. I threw my mother into it. I made a man of myself [at my mother's expense] instead of a slave," he wrote.) He did not lose his virginity until his 29th birthday, as a direct consequence, he protested, of having bought a respectable suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses...
...members of Congress, disproves the old idea that legal writers make up for dry writing style by logical rigor. He is both dry and illogical. Not only is his defense of congressional immunity unconvincing, but he ignores the deficiencies of legislative self-regulation: the un-likelihood that courts would throw socialists out of a legislature, as the New York legislature did in the 1920's; or Negroes out, as the Georgia legislature did this year...