Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Charlie Thomas has been shifted from center to right field and Don Giles has broken into the starting nine at center. Leon Peao seems to have taken the first base assignment away from early-season started Madden. Either Howie Mitchell or Bob McKee will hurl for the Terriers...
Like ghosts in clanking chains, the tanks which France once had to hurl against the onrushing Germans began to haunt the men of Vichy. Old Papa Petain squirmed. Only 20 miles away, in the almost forgotten village of Riom, a story was unfolded that the world had never heard before. It was an appalling story. If true, it snatched the cloak of guilt from scapegoats facing trial in Riom's Palais de Justice, placed it snugly over the Marshal's own aged shoulders...
...commander must figure out with precision how much the enemy state will be weakened by the loss of certain sources of supply and by the disconnection of certain arteries. He must foretell without mistake whether the enemy will collapse in pain from the wounds inflicted on him, or hurl himself forward with frenzied might like a wounded and enraged bull...
During a raid the warden must go on about his business, but is expected to take elementary precautions for his safety. You can hear the bomb, according to Mrs. DeRoth, and there is nothing to do but throw yourself on the ground. "It may be difficult at first to hurl yourself into mud or dirt, but a soiled coat is certainly preferable to being blown a block away by the blast...
...electron-hurling machine, weightiest contribution to atomic physics since the cyclotron was invented in 1931, was unveiled before science and the world last week. It can hurl electrons-particles of negative electricity-at nearly the speed of light. It can produce 20,000,000-volt X-rays, some ten times more than the world's biggest X-ray machine. It can out-radiate all the extracted radium supplies on earth-and its further abilities have scarcely been explored. While U.S. scientists speculated upon the discoveries the device might lead to, they welcomed to their front ranks its brilliant young...