Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian brigade reached the port of Bermeo eight miles from the capital on the Biscay coast, captured it. Here they were counterattacked by Basque militia, for the most part fishermen and their armed wives. When the Italians broke ranks, the bloodthirsty fishwives chased them into houses, beat them, threw them out of windows. Many escaped by jumping the sea wall, swimming two miles to the eastern shore of Guernica Inlet...
...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...
...according to law. But when they stepped out of a side door of the courthouse, they found themselves face to face with what so often handles cases like theirs in the South. An angry mob surged forward, took them from the custody of their guardians without a struggle, threw them into a school...
...Philadelphia Athletics: their ten-inning game against the Washington Senators on the opening day of the major-league baseball season; 4-to-3; in Washington, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt threw out the first ball, stayed until the game was over...
...coming, and Kate was pregnant once again, and credit at the butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw up the dry sponge, gave up his thankless Art, took them all home to find a more comfortable way to live...