Word: throw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...village 130 miles south of My Lai in early 1968. A Viet Nam veteran at Fort Benning, Ga., who would not give his name said he and other G.I.s had taken three Viet Cong prisoners up in a helicopter. "We told them to talk or we'd throw them out. The first guy wouldn't talk, so we tossed him out. The second wouldn't say anything, so we dumped him. The third one talked...
...White House Aide Clark Mollenhoff's attack on opponents of Judge Clement Haynsworth on a Washington television program was so vehement that it caused one of the participants to threaten a libel action. Mollenhoff's repeated fulminations led to a Washington jape about the "Mollenhoff Cocktail-you throw it and it backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers. Everywhere on TV is Herb Klein, the Administration's director of communications, who with boyish grin and crinkly eyes...
...that conclusion on your own and then wondering where to go from there. The book is a junkyard for the left-over bits and pieces of American myths that couldn't quite be worked into The System; interesting how you often learn more about people from the stuff they throw away than from what they admit to keeping. Ishmael Reed has taken assorted scraps and shavings from American history, religion, and polities and made of them a tale that at first sounds like a child's nightmare of shadows and misconceptions. But by the time you finish...
...Last fall when he was elected captain of the 1969 football team, John Cramer said, "We should be very good next year, especially on offense." Cramer cannot legitimately be criticized for naivete because the outlook really was good. Nor is it appropriate to throw any more barbs at a beleaguered team. But it is interesting to note that while people were throwing about cheery predictions for the football team last fall and even this fall, almost nothing was heard about what might become of the cross country or soccer teams. As it turns out, both finished regular season play undefeated...
...write on the eve of the Yale game, for a variety of reasons. If Harvard loses, it might spell the untimely end for Mr. Yoviensin, and if I am to remain chivalrous I should throw my punches before my adversary is down and out. If Harvard wins, then the alumni and overseers might think that the season is salvaged and keep the smiling and hoping Mr. Yoviesin...