Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Willys-Overland helping to pick up the tab for CBS. For a while, network circles buzzed with rumors of prodigies: NBC was planning to transmit a live story of the coronation by bouncing TV images off the moon, and thence across the Atlantic; CBS was ready to hurl its film from London to the U.S. by the latest thing in guided missiles. As of this week, both networks were apparently ready to settle for plain jet planes...
...baseball game taking place this afternoon at Soldiers Field, Battledore K. Pressbane will lead the forces of farce in an attempt to overthrow a 23 year string of CRIMSON victories. Ace flinger Michael "Maggot" Maggoby, 200 pound two year old, will hurl from the mound for the newshounds...
Potter Palmer, right-hander from St. Mark's School, will pitch at least the first three innings for the Yardlings. Ed Rossano and Art Kessler will also hurl...
...doubt wish." "Withdraw!" bawled the Labor benches at this slur on Shinwell's patriotism, but the Prime Minister's dander was up. Instead of withdrawing, he recklessly peppered the air with further opprobrium: an ambiguous reference to "cosmopolitanism," which is a word the Kremlin likes to hurl at Jews. Laborites booed and hissed as Churchill started to stride out of the House. "Is it in order to boo a member of this House?" he demanded truculently. A scathing Scottish voice gave his answer: "What else can you say to a goose?" Now came cries from the Tory side...
...assault on the British way of life, With Malice Toward Some (TIME, Aug. 28, 1938), swept her into realization of "the American Dream-the sudden, juicy, delicious, enthralling, entrancing, exhilarating acquisition of money." "Between Sunday night and Monday morning" she became a well-to-do celebrity, all set to hurl herself into the "national pastime" of "having things nice." "I had people in to dinner, and I had a maid to cook the dinner ... I got a divorce, which is standard. I went to a psychoanalyst-which is standard, too." In a few more years, said her friends, Margaret would...