Word: hurls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the ship. At this point Putzy opened a letter just handed to him. It said that since he thought so little of General Franco and so much of the Red Government in Spain he was to receive an opportunity to meet his Red friends. The guards were to hurl him from the plane over Leftist Spam. At Munich, next stop, Putzy managed to slip away, took 17 hours to escape to the Swiss frontier. Shortly after he reached Zurich he was invited by the Government to return to Germany "because the whole affair was a practical joke...
...strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat-driving Premier would be genuinely dismayed. He hopes with "Liberal" fervor that he may enable the Son-of-Heaven to rise over North China without undue bloodshed and not upsettingly soon...
...have the U. S. so well-prepared to fight that no nation will dare to antagonize it. No man knows better than the onetime chairman of the War Industries Board that the biggest guns in modern war are not military but economic. He struggled heroically to hurl the U. S.'s vast economic power into the War but, forced to improvise methods as he went, his efforts fell short. Ever since 1919 he has been pounding away in speeches and articles for adoption in advance of a plan to mobilize the entire nation when war comes again...
...further the Harvard trouble Ed Ingalls, leading pitcher, is still bothered by a sore elbow, but he has been chosen to hurl just the same. Last Saturday at Cornell, Ingalls threw only three curves due to this trouble, but got by all right, and Coach Fred Mitchell figures that he will do so again today...
...same mayor led a crusade against honest utility companies so that he might tell the ignorant masses that he had reduced their gas bills. Hardly any legislation advocated by communists has lacked his support. Finally, to secure the votes of a certain faction the mayor has been willing to hurl insults at the popular leader of a foreign power at peace with the United States...