Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While its popularity may silence the gloomy critics of the national scene who proclaim that America never reads, the book's success threatens to throw a wench into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...
...fight just because they took a beating at the polls. Duval argues that when Britain gets into the Common Market, Mauritius will have an outlet for its sugar (which accounts for 97% of its exports), and that as a fellow member of the European Economic Community, France will throw open its doors to French-speaking Mauritian immigrants...
...complains that most people simply do not realize what attracts rats. Rich-smelling fried food left in an empty room is bait. So are dishes in the sink. So is the feeding of dogs, cats, squirrels and birds in the backyard. Among the worst offenders are construction workmen who throw away luncheon leftovers. "There hasn't been a building put up in Washington in 15 years that the rats didn't move into before the people," says Travis. "You have the exterminator working on the first floor by the time they're laying concrete on the second...
...then gradually take over the functions of individual company boards. Duplication will-hopefully-be eliminated from the start, and services and supply of raw materials streamlined to attain greater efficiency. The four units will not compete with each other in price, but in service, quality and productivity. "We will throw up real savings in a short time," Lord Melchett says, but he admits that within the present domestic and foreign economic context the new venture is "very much in the lap of the gods...
...Vietnam, the crisis in the Middle East was not over some vague Domino Theory nor was it the universal anti-Communist crusade. After listening to Nasser's broadcasts it all seemed very simple: the Arab nations had formed a coalition and were openly plotting the liquidation of the Jews. "Throw the Jews into the sea" was one of their more moderate proposals for a final solution to the "Israeli problem." Thousands if Jews all over the world reacted to this war in the same way that an earlier generation of idealists had reacted to the Spanish Civil War. Fortunately...