Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the room's windows were closed, firemen had to break through to get at the burning furniture. They then proceded to throw the furniture out the window...
While this explanation is simple enough (until you throw in leap years and such), the ramifications are manifold. Foremost is the delay of the Yale weekend to Thanksgiving vacation. This situation has arisen before: the last time by the calendar was 1961, then more recently in 1963 when the assassination of President Kennedy occasioned a postponement...
Search for a Gambit. To recoup some of the ground it has lost, the Administration last week was groping for a saving gambit. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that the U.S. would throw an electronic barrier across the 17th parallel to stem infiltration from the North (see following story), which could result in reduced bombing of the North and thus help to placate Washington critics of the war. At the United Nations, Ambassador Arthur Goldberg was trying to line up support for a new bid to the Security Council to undertake a settlement...
...This is not a love-in," squawked a pimply bacchante, "it's a cash-in." And so it was-another ingenious cash-in by the eleemosynarily inspired Duke of Bedford, 50, who for a price stands ever-ready to throw open the gate of historic, debt-encrusted Woburn Abbey...
...Throw It at Him. Experts estimate that the odds against an angler simply spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait...