Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Should Kennedy fail, Butler believes that Missouri's Stuart Symington or-maybe-Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey could beat Richard Nixon next November. Texas' Lyndon Johnson "doesn't want to win as badly as many Democrats." In a convention crisis, Butler hinted, Johnson might throw his support to the least-promising candidate, in order to lose the election and enhance his own position as Senate leader in a Nixon Administration...
...supper on a tray, alone by the fire. But once the children were up next morning, the loneliness vanished. No boy could ever be more splendid than her "young gentleman," and no girl more dainty than her "young lady." Her children did not bite nails, climb trees or throw naughty tantrums. If they did, there could be a paddy whack on the "sit-upon." But when sickness fell, it was nanny who sat by the bedside all night. In 1946, when the famed Alah died after being nanny to the Queen Mother, the Queen and Princess Margaret, she was placed...
...Opposition's role during the Suez crisis "exceptionally misleading." By innuendo, Gaitskell revives the old charge of emotional instability in Eden caused by ill-health: "How it came about that [Eden] behaved in a manner completely at variance with his past is a mystery on which the memoirs throw no light." But Gaitskell himself came in for some digs from his own side, from Lord Morrison of Lambeth, the cockney " 'Erbie" Morrison who still resents being defeated for the party leadership by Gaitskell. As the Suez crisis deepened, wrote Lord Morrison last week, "Mr. Gaitskell and our Labor...
...like a Renaissance humanist-he seems to have the key to everything. If he speaks about atomic science, one feels he knows all there is to know about modern physics. He can plumb the depths of Freud or analyze the mysticism of Paul Klee's paintings; he can throw new light on the obscure poetry of Hölderlin and Rilke, or expound the strengths and weaknesses of Communist dialectic. Guardini seems to control the bridges that lead from art, from literature, from philosophy -to religion...
...from tranquilizing a child, some of the potent drugs given to prevent nausea and vomiting may throw him into convulsions, warns a Manhattan pediatrician. In some cases, says New York University's Dr. Sidney Q. Cohlan in GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice), even moderate doses of drugs in the phenothiazine family* produce alarming and puzzling convulsions...