Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bogalusa, La., a paper-mill town of 23,000 near the Mississippi border, gun-toting white and Negro toughs seemed ready to throw themselves into pitched battle against each other. That they had not actually begun open warfare was almost entirely because of the efforts of Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen-and, as so often happens to the peacemaker, McKeithen himself was under fire from both sides...
...venial sifts against the language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...
...About to Throw Up." One hard day's night over the whole CBS network last week, the big-beat spectacular happened just the way Murray planned it. A breakneck succession of 23 Scopi-tone-like acts in 90 minutes. A bill reading like Billboard's "Hot 100" and sounding, to adults, like 76 air hammers. The Ronettes playing stickball on Manhattan's Mott Street. Little Anthony and the Imperials mock-"bopping" on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox. Gary Lewis and the Playboys blowing up a squall on the beach at California's Abalone Cove...
...said the New York Herald Tribune. Republican Congressmen were indignant -in fact, "almost incandescent in their fulminations," reported Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen following a G.O.P. policy-committee luncheon. Colorado's Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Allott phoned CBS President Frank Stanton and announced, "I am about to throw...
...recognize them when you read White's account of how Luke Williams, the man who invented the little signs that flash the time and the temperature, organized Goldwater's campaign in Washington. Remember reading thousands of little charts on the organization of the American economy in Ec 101? Throw them out; read White's four-page description of the operation of the "Eastern Establishment" and watch how a thinking reporter makes this "dull" subject come alive...