Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of closed-door conferences until 3 a.m. The longest was with Michigan's Romney, whom he urged to become a stop-Goldwater candidate. Romney, for a few hours, considered it. Emboldened, Nixon mentioned Ohio's Republican State Chairman Ray Bliss as a man who might well throw decisive support to Romney. Trouble was, Nixon had neglected to talk to Bliss-and when he did, he got a flat refusal to endorse Romney or anyone else but Ohio's favorite son, Governor James Rhodes...
...Therefore, any political party which seriously undertakes to lead the Government of this nation-not only in Washington but also in the state capitols, in the courthouses, in the city halls-such a great party will not lightly throw away the top places on its ticket...
Saving Fox. People throw old fruit at her sometimes when she sings, for French rock-'n'-roll crowds come in two forms, the idolaters, who are mad insane, and the snarlers, who are mad angry. "They hate us, they really despise us," says Sylvie. "They hate the way we sing, but mainly they can't accept the fact that young people are big successes. They are nasty. They organize leagues. It's terrible...
...champagne into the press headquarters. At week's end, once again at the top of his game, Lema knocked in six straight birdies in Michigan's Buick Open, had a two-stroke lead at the end of 54 holes, and started dreaming about the blast he will throw if he wins the U.S. Open. "Champagne won't be enough," he said. "I win that and I'll spring for the hors d'oeuvres...
Near the outset, the girls begin to yip like Chippewas and throw their skirts in the air while the orchestra saws out some Offenbach, and they kick up their legs in what can be precisely described as the can't-can't. Georges Ulmer, the man who wrote the ballad Pigalle and who acts as M.C., tells a joke: "The Folies-Bergère is an old institution, nearly 100 years old. Of course, lately we have changed some of the girls." He does not say which ones, and without radioactive carbon it is absolutely impossible to tell...