Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress has, of course, not evidenced any great affection for campus rebels. Well aware of how most of his constituents regard students who seize buildings and throw out administrators, many a Senator or representative has arisen in his chamber, delivered a scathing speech against SDS members, and perhaps introduced a bill which would -- as two such proposals provide -- withdraw all Federal aid from any campus where disorders occur, or from colleges which fail to carry out research deemed important to the national security. At the same time, three Congressional committees have held lengthy hearings on student unrest...
...clearer by the time appropriations hearings are over. The final result may depend largely on how strongly the American public as a whole is feeling about "college unrest." If voter sentiment is highly anti-student, Congress--which can be extraordinarily sensitive to public feeling on certain issues--may well throw moderation to the winds, and replace it with tougher legislation...
Some twenty minutes or so before the play itself begins, members of the company gradually come on stage--dressed mostly in well-worn tee-shirts and dungarees--and use the area purely as a playground. These young people--about a fifth of them Negro--dribble and pass basketballs, throw Frisbees (unusually skillfully, too), play with hula-hoops, spar and wrestle, do gymnastics, shinny up and down the swing ropes, and hang by their heels from the top of the stage. Some of them make rhythms with a tambourine, rattle, triangle, maracus, and a pair of claves. Eventually there are some...
...many challenge races the Regatta offers, the Thames Cup ranks second only to the Grand Challenge cup in terms of difficulty and prestige. The absence of weight limits, which will throw the lights boats outweighing them by 50 pounds per man, presents the Crimson boat with another problem...
AFTER FRIDAY night, Martin began to feel better, realizing that Jean was just a silly little bitch who would sooner or later learn a few things. By Wednesday, he was himself again. He was in such a good spirits that his biology instructor had promised to throw him out of the lab the next time he started singing. Undaunted, Martin hummed as he prepared and set aside test tubes of coagulated and precipitated proteins...