Word: hurls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liverpool last week a venerable labor leader sentimentally told his colleagues: "After 30 years in the union it was the greatest pleasure of my life to see the Dock Road in such an idle state yesterday." At Southampton other union bosses sallied out in a motor launch to hurl the dreaded epithet "strikebreaker" at the crews of Royal Navy tugs which were towing the 81,237-ton Queen Mary out to sea. Without quite knowing how or why, Britain had drifted to the verge of a work stoppage which all the headlines said would be the biggest since the general...
Comedy enters only occasionally, but nicely. The scene in which, as a demonstration of technique, the eccentric old Laird and a sledge hammer wind each other up and hurl themselves into space is exquisite. The Laird becomes a most amusing exaggeration of a country squire with the overplaying of Alastair Sim, who can squint, fidget, grimace, say nothing at great length, and provoke laughter as well as any British character alive. The large Wee Geordie is played by Bill Travers, who in such a "natural man" role, does not have much positive acting to do, yet does it well...
...egotism in all of us, to mock the unfamiliar in other men's faith and worship. Such words as 'heathen,' 'idolatry,' 'superstition.' are used more often as smear words or in derision than in their legitimate meanings. They are words we hurl at others; seldom do we apply them to ourselves. Yet every man should command respect in the moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship may appear to us bizarre, sometimes repellent...
...love to hurl the dollar chip...
...that he possessed a heel much like modern man's. While an ape can squeeze and crush, it takes a heel-furnished man to "rotate the whole body around stabilized feet and therewith dance a jig, plant a fist in a face, throw an opponent in wrestling or hurl a projectile with accuracy." Prometheus was capable of doing all these things, and his dexterity enabled him to fashion crude stone tools with a cutting edge to slice up his victims after he killed them. Strangely, he often seemed to prefer to cut off the heads of animals or fellow...