Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes of hockey for the cause (his supporters later distributed thousands of 70 auto windshield scrapers showing him on skates and saying "McCarthy Cuts the Ice"). Big names rallied to him. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who as chairman of the Americans for Dem ocratic Action helped throw the group's endorsement to McCarthy, turned up. So did Poet Robert Lowell, who told listeners that the Republicans offered no alternative because "they cannot sink and they will not swim." Actors Robert Ryan and Tony Randall took to the stump, but Paul Newman's appearances had to be circumscribed...
...tale to tell his traveling companion. Because of faulty equipment, every photographic plate of groups of stars exposed during a complex and expensive balloon-borne telescope experiment had been hopelessly blurred. The companion, University of Michigan Electrical Engineer George Stroke, was less discouraged. "Don't throw anything away," he urged Blamont. "Give me time and I'll get pictures out of your ruined film...
...stepped up the use of cans and are nursing a meager hoard of returnable bottles. "We've been rationing throwaways for weeks," said Pittsburgh Brewing Co. President Louis J. Slais, "and if this thing lasts a few more days, there won't be any more throwaways to throw away...
...THOMSON: Senator, let me throw out a quick comment on that. It belongs so clearly in the crystal ball realm that anyone who would pretend to give you an answer is deluding himself. We see through a glass darkly here, and any pretense to an understanding of who will suc-Mao--and even if we knew who he was, what he would do--involves self-delusion...
...could and should learn from the past. I would just throw in one comment, and that is that we don't always learn the right lessons from the past, and one of the lessons we may learn from Vietnam which may not be the right lesson is that we should never get that deeply involved in an underdeveloped far-away country. I am not sure that this is the appropriate lesson. The real lesson is the uniqueness of the Vietnam situation, the unique complex of forces there, which made success in that enterprise so highly improbable even if you looked...