Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential stand. . . . The American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely formal. The President grasped the flyer's hand warmly and threw his arms around the Colonel's shoulder...
That was at a little after 9 o'clock. The boat moved up the river. A deckhand threw down his whiskey bottle and started for the galley; on the way he noticed a little fire that was burning brightly on the floor of a storeroom; the deckhand threw some charcoal on top of the flames and then went to look for the mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat...
...proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades of steel billets and railroad ties, mounted a cannon on each side of the river and fired upon the detectives. The detectives returned the fire. The workmen poured oil on the barges and on the river, and prepared to set the oil afire. The detectives surrendered. Seven men were...
This ta-ra-boom vibrated over Illinois, over Indiana, over Ohio, and set quivering the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which once had individuality and still has prestige. Its editors threw off their eyeshades; reached for their fifes, ever ready among the lead pencils on their desks; and shrilled in tune with the Tribune: "This institution [University of Wisconsin], like many others, is said to be honeycombed with radical doctrinaires, internationalists and aliens. The boys have been led to believe that they should refuse to submit to military training and discipline. Why cannot all such academic proponents...
...toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...