Word: fro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot as he walks on his beat to and fro...
...bought carriage after carriage for him . . . but . . . he just couldn't sit up. [Father Greenfield demonstrated how the child's head flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family...
...high, slanting foreheads, under which a receding chin (which extends to their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted that he had added a few buckets of gelatin to their water to slow them down...
...unions rocked to & fro, with their seats and their unions in peril...
...Republican machine after surrendering the old Non-Partisan League to Mr. Langer, retorted that the Langer administration at Bismarck was full of graft. One mistake Mr. Langer made: he quarreled with able Representative William Lemke of Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act fame. For two days the wheat waved to & fro while the ballots were counted. The result: though all the rest of the Langer ticket won, Mr. Lemke won, and Neutrality's Nye squeaked through 89,224 votes to Langer...