Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammond, and not the mine workers, who proposes that the Federal Administration shall cast overboard its policy of non-interference with business. It is Mr. Hammond who proposes that the Republican majority in Congress shall depart from its traditional policy and, through legislation, establish a semi-regulation of the anthracite industry...
...eleven o'clock A bell rang. The hawsers were cast off. The great vessel began to tremble with the churning of her screws. Gradually she backed away from the dock and drew put into the Solent. Suddenly a little tug, the Southampton Roadster, left the shore and pushed toward the liner. The tug's deck was crowded with roughly clad men. Were the strikers actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered...
...with foresight President Saavedra had assembled 6,000 troops at La Paz and he was able to "postpone" the inauguration of Villanueva (TIME, Sept. 7) while he cast about for means of ousting him. The means were found...
Somewhere inside the great red sandstone walls, in one of the spacious old-fashioned chambers of the Waldorf-Astoria (in Manhattan) sat a tremendous man. Swarthy he was, and six feet tall, 230 pounds over all. Near him stood a man lighter in build but equally dark in cast of countenance, his interpreter...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord back in the cast giving the best performance of the past season in what was nominated by the Pulitzer Prize committee as the best play...