Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.C.A. action could throw Parsons into still deeper trouble since its expansion was financed in part by $5.2 million in mortgages from Connecticut insurance companies, which were secured by a pledge to maintain accreditation. Parsons' trustees last week also brought suit in a federal court for an injunction preventing the N.C.A. from lifting the college's accreditation...
Seconded Florida's James Haley: "Load a boat full of them and take them 500 miles out into the ocean and handcuff them, chain the anchor around their necks and throw them overboard...
...young artists in Russia today are gluing together unrealistic collages, op artists are opting for eye-twisting geometry, and there is even a group of painters in their 30s and 40s who throw together unsocialist images just because they feel like it. The Western world sees precious little of their work, for the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists is dominated by middle-aged academicians who learned their trade in the heyday of Stalinist realism. Their ponderous paeans to Lenin and heroic bobbin tenders go into official displays such as the Venice Biennale and Expo 67. Only an occasional private exhibition...
...there was probably the idea that what happened at those other Ivy colleges might happen here. At Princeton the dean, informed by the authorities to clean his own house or they would do it for him, called the known drug users there to his office and told them to "throw the stuff in the river" or there would be trouble. Some did, but seven were arrested, and the New York Daily News had a field...
...Years Late. Mumford's profoundly reactionary answer to the megamachine is to throw a monkey wrench into it and send it down a time tunnel. Go back to Benedictine monasteries, where work was a "byword for zealous efficiency and formal perfection." Discover new prophets of "modest, humane disposition," like Jesus and Confucius. Establish new routines, such as the Hebrew Sabbath that "found a way of obstructing the megamachine and challenging its inflated claims." Abandon the modern constitutional equivalents of ancient kingships and revert to Neolithic culture. In other words, Mumford would perfect man with weaving, pottery and thatched-village...