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Word: throw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories over the past few years, regularly read, clip and stockpile a remarkable variety of military periodicals. "Reading Aviation Week and Strategic Review can be quite interesting," Sutter says, "once you have broken the language barrier." According to Pines, she has done exactly that. Says he: "Betty can talk throw-weights and payloads with the best of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...failings of the system or unfortunate deviations from the norm, and electing another Kennedy on a white horse will not help. When the system works perfectly--business as usual--the poor, the powerless, minorities get screwed. The left should realize it has little future in presidential politics and throw itself into community organizing...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: What's Left in 1980 | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

Epps said yesterday the guidelines have so far worked smoothly, and students who wanted to throw large parties have--without the demon rum. But even if alcohol is not provided by the hosts, the guests often show up with...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

While the hard-line stance of the administration is no alcohol for underclassmen, masters and students are still trying to work out a compromise. Masters can throw parties with alcohol, even if students cannot, but the funds must come from the House entertainment budget and thus ultimately from the students' room charges. Increasing the entertainment budget to cover the booze the individual students would have bought for themselves before the ban is unfair to the teetotalling minority. Besides, alcohol is expensive; the masters could use their budget to reach many students more often if they were not burdened with...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...action that a mother might feel morally compelled to take. Consider the following situation: suppose you were to return home one day and find a stranger camped out in your living room and peacefully eating the ham sandwich you saved for dinner. You would be tempted to throw him out in the street. Almost everyone could agree that you had the right to eject...

Author: By Tanya Luhrmann, | Title: The Pro-Choice Argument | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

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