Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really believe that the Italians suffered so many defeats? And you believe that the Italians, after took Bermeo from the armed force of the Reds, were attacked by a handful of fishermen and their wives and threw out of the windows and forced them to jump into the sea [TIME, May 10]? Bah, be more serious and refrain of publish such asinine lies...
...school campaign was a breach of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat (TIME, July 17, 1933). Hitler, however, had a trump card. He had long been lining up "evidence" to prove that German Catholic monasteries were hotbeds of immorality. In a climactic, triumphant effort to squelch Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children would be transformed without a hitch into little Brown Shirts...
...Negrin knew that his immediate job was to prevent the Anarcho-Syndicalists from sabotaging the united Republicans, Socialists. Communists and Basque Nationalists represented in his Cabinet. In his favor, the Madrid General Federation of Labor, most potent Socialist-Communist labor group, threw in its lot with the new Government and the menace of Anarcho-Syndicalists, largely industrial workers, shrank proportionately. His other and bigger job-winning the war- he tackled by giving the strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time...
...Employers looking for cheap household help had connived with crooked lawyers and judges to release girls, both white and Negro, from Baltimore's asylums for the feeble-minded on habeas corpus writs. Once the employers had the girls, they worked them as maids for little or no pay, threw them on the street when unsatisfied with their dull-witted work...
Behind the Headlines (RKO). Reporters who had to compete with Newsflash Broadcaster Eddy Haines (Lee Tracy) agreed that if they threw him out of the window he would scoop them by broadcasting the news all the way to the ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which...