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Word: throw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngsters massed behind red banners, though the majority had come to watch rather than attack. The cry was "Stop the trial!"?the Chicago trial of those accused of conspiracy in last year's Democratic Convention riots. The mob got close enough to the Justice building to throw stones through windows and to substitute a Viet Cong standard for an American flag in front of the building. Again the police were circumspect, and troops stayed out of the action. New Mobe marshals tried to make the mob go back, actually interposing themselves between demonstrators and the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...BSFA will sit-in at 11 a. m. today. Lafayette Ketton '73, spokesman for the new black student group, said that the demonstrators would "sit on desks, block typewriters, stop people from working, and sit in front of the door." He added, however, that "we don't plan to throw anyone out; we plan to keep them in there...

Author: By Shirley E. Wolman, | Title: SDS and Splinter Group of Afro To Hold Obstructive Sit-In Today | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

...some 15 minutes demonstrators and police confronted each other until the crowd began to throw rocks and sticks at police. Then the police began a massive tear gas attack on the crowd...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...some of those big holes again. Yovicsin said last Saturday to the press. "We're not a real good football team. I'm sure you fellows know that. "Well, today he and his boys go to Providence with reasonable hopes of bringing back an even record. Look, Sec Joe throw. Brown's had a disappointing year, and if the Bruins expect a letup today, they might as well expect Patches to be washed up on the bank of the river down by the coal mine-alive...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...responded to him; no one in the White House responded to the 40,000 names shouted. We could not see the White House even though we passed along Pennsylvania Avenue a stone's throw away (had we dared). We couldn't see because of enormous, blinding lights set up so we couldn't see to throw. We could only see the guards in the gatehouses along the fence...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

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