Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about nuclear weapons. I think to most military men that a nuclear weapon is just another weapon in our arsenal," he maintained. "I think there are many occasions when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. If I found it necessary, I would use anything that we could dream up-including nuclear weapons...
...presidential campaign. They are doing so with the help of George Wallace. The Alabamian is gaining so many votes, says one happy Southern Congressman, that he is now as strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea is absolute anarchy...
...electoral votes in November. Then, between the election and the official balloting of the Electoral College on December 16, Wallace would try to bargain his electoral votes for such concessions as a voice in selecting Cabinet members or Supreme Court Justices. If that fell through, Wallace could still throw his electors to one of the candidates - and loudly claim to have elected that man President...
...dirty stuff on the air," explains Rowan. "About 90% of the stuff that's cut out of the script for being too blue, we take out ourselves. But our writers are normal, healthy guys, and they've got to have the freedom to throw anything into the pot. And then we discuss it." And discuss and rediscuss...
...last spring's Easter riots were precipitated by the brutal attack on Rudi Dutschke, but the death of two innocent people hardly aided Dutschke's cause.) Of course German policemen have been brutal, but even the most hot-eyed disciples of Herr Herbert Marcuse can hardly believe that they throw stones. One further "accomplishment" out of many. From May 27-31 SDS-led "students" occupied the Germanic Seminar of the Free University of Berlin. I saw and smelled, all too vividly, the results of this liberation. (There had not been the slightest provocation on the part of the professors...