Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic. In Clinton, Iowa, impetuous Ezra Adams explained to a judge that irritation at a soap opera had prompted him to 1) ram his fist through the family radio, 2) hack the set to matchwood with a hammer, 3) hurl eggs at random around the room...
...history ordained by God. ... In biblical prophecy and apocalypse, it is God who in one of His finally mighty acts brings history to an end. Now it is man who in blatant self-assertion, in fear-nourished pride, threatens to take his destiny into his own hands and hurl himself to destruction. This is the miserable arrogance of the creature who never learned to serve his Creator, the final blasphemy of man who thought that he could be God. ". . . It seems to me thoroughly dangerous to say that God's plan for man's use of atomic energy...
...Middlesex club boasts plenty of experience, gained in the local Paul Revere League and the Watertown Twi-League, where it has a record of 40 wins against 10 losses. Foster, one of its star pitchers, will shift allegiance and hurl for the Crimson tomorrow...
...article in Ordnance magazine, Dr. Zwicky announced that he and his associates hope to hurl artificial meteors beyond the earth's atmosphere, to bombard the moon, Jupiter and other planets in an effort to find out what they are made of. The scientists also hope to record the mysteries of space with rocket-borne telescopes, spectrographs and other scientific instruments...
Haganah sponsors hurl their own hot words at Hecht in full-page ads: "There are new playboys in America; they play with Jewish blood. The thrills of Hollywood are no longer sharp enough. They need lustier excitement, bolder showmanship. . . . They egg on the mad children of the Irgun: the distant whiff of bombs is headier than a cocktail...