Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stop. Like most top hockey players, Richard is a tough, combative cyclone, who has been known to hurl his stocky, 180-lb. frame toward an enemy goalie with two defensemen hanging from his broad shoulders. What's more, he has scored from just such entanglements-a knack that makes Richard a perpetual target for roughhouse treatment. Says Montreal Coach Dick Irvin: "Never in the history of the National League has a man been subjected to such abuse-or perhaps I should say, attention-from the other teams. They say: 'We have got to go out and stop this...
...fact was that astonished young (28) Concertmaster Alfred Bruening caught a flying baton in the face. The mystery: Did the baton just slip out of Halasz's hand, as Halasz claimed, or did he hurl it, straight and true as a javelin, as the outraged concertmaster afterward charged...
...food didn't suit him, Vasily would hurl it on the floor, stamp out, and roar away in his plane to stunt off his anger. He drank brandy and vodka in gulping draughts from breakfast until bedtime. The base soccer team, the Stalin Commandos, either in victory rode the dizzying crest of his pleasure or in defeat the depths of his displeasure...
...steel-shielded command post, where nine-foot-high maps slide on tracks along the wall. Here the word of enemy attack would come, and from here the word would be flashed to the White House. Day & night a general officer is on duty in the command post, empowered to hurl the U.S. air force into action at Truman's order if an emergency demanded...
...their attacks on his snowballing budget deficit and the portside list of his Fair Deal. This time the President lacked a keynote as succinct as his "worst Congress in history" battle cry of 1948; Harold Stassen last week tried to give the Republicans as simple a credo to hurl back. "President Truman," said Stassen, "is the cleverest politician . . . and . . . the worst President ever to occupy the White House...