Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political fourflushing. "It's obviously Bobby," said one White House aide. "McCarthy has no burning conviction. He's not leading a peace movement." The remark reflected a widely held conspiracy theory that McCarthy's aim is to unite dissident Democratic support in the primaries and then throw that support to Robert Kennedy some time before next summer's Democratic Convention. Texas Governor John Connally, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's, called McCarthy "a stalking horse, a catalyst for dissidents...
Wallace aspires to beat the Republican presidential candidate and the Democrat as well, thinking that a three-way stand-off in the Electoral College, with no candidate managing to win the required 270 votes, might throw the decision to the House of Representatives. After almost seven weeks of baby kissing and arm wringing in 14 states, however, Lonesome George has little cause for serious hope. Of the 66,059 signatures he must gather in California, for example, he has rounded up 25,000 at most, and he must file his petition...
...Throw Away the Script. His career lasted over half a century; by 1803, at 71, he was too weak to compose, but lingered on six more years to counsel such later hotbloods as the young Beethoven and Weber. For most of his life he was court composer to Prince Nicholas Esterházy, who obliged him to wear livery and dine at the servants' table, but who gave him every encouragement to tinker with accepted musical conventions and, when necessary, to kick them over. Haydn's musical life, in fact, stands as a direct contradiction...
...people in this glass house throw pebbles, not stones, and such damage as they do is not to flesh but to sensibilities. Since the house is tall, stands on the bank of Manhattan's East River and is a monument to international good works, it may be as well to see it as U.N. headquarters. Shirley Hazzard calls it simply the Organization-though she worked at the U.N. for ten years. The characters represent many nations, but, above all, they represent one way of life. What they do and say provides a fictional counterpart to William Whyte...
...quite know," says one of the listeners later. "I think I felt heartened to hear something said merely because it was felt. Still, I did find all that stuff about one's integrity a bit Nordic." Moral: people in this glass house shouldn't throw their inner selves around...