Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth Johnson again proved a thorn in Healey's side as he opened the stanza with a single and then waltzed around the sacks on a series of ludicrous boners. After getting on first, he stole second, and then tantalized Healey who threw to second to try to catch him off the bag. Johnson proceeded to third on the throw, and when the ball got away from Art Johns at second, Johnson trotted home...
Barcelona correspondents got a more authoritative statement from Battalion Lieutenant Alvin Cohen: "Honeycombe behaved badly and ran away, finally coming to me in Barcelona, begging to be sent back to America. I threw him in jail instead, to think it over, and then sent him back to the Brigade. Now he has run away again." Lieutenant Cohen called the figure of 8,500 Americans killed, wounded and missing in Spain given by Mr. Honeycombe "highly exaggerated." Barcelona Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews again cabled as the total U. S. enrollment in the People's Army the figure...
...Hyde Park, a gathering of British friends of Leftist Spain suddenly espied in their midst last week a golden-haired girl wearing a swastika pin. "Throw her in the Serpentine!" shouted enraged friends, spat in the young woman's face, kicked her shins, threw rocks after her as she ran out of Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother...
...barbarians! Who invented and still employs the guillotine? [Cries of "Die Franzosen!" (The French!)] Who exterminated whole social classes? [Cries of "Die Bolschewiken!" (The Bolsheviks!)] ... It is stupid to say 'Hitler means war.' . . . He tore the Treaty of Versailles to pieces and threw them in the faces of its beneficiaries. By so doing war was avoided...
...repercussions of Austria's Nazification last week continued to widen through the world. Opportunistic Hollywood threw its hat into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...