Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Incredible hand-to-hand encounters followed, in which men threw themselves on top of each other in utter disregard of danger, perfectly contemptuous of death, bombing, slashing, stabbing and firing; forcing themselves forward step by step into the labyrinthine maze of underground passages in the old fort; climbing over the bodies of slain and wounded, both sides, howling and crying in a scarcely human...
...Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without suppressions or inhibitions; they threw their Christmas tree out the window without a word of parental rebuke; they learned life from the transcripts of testimony in Chicago criminal courts; they won beauty contests, rode like Amazons, behaved as they pleased. Since then the Misses Spencer, whose news value is not lessened by the fact that...
...Spanish warship that no longer deserves the name has halted a German steamer on the high seas. . . ." echoed Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "This ship was under the orders of mutineers who at the beginning of the Spanish civil war murdered their officers and threw them overboard. Therefore it is not only a breach of international law but worse that has happened...
...musical hero of Salzburg last week was Conductor Bruno Walter. This able Jew had arrived ailing from the effects of a Vienna performance of Tristan wud Isolde at which Nazi bullyboys threw stink bombs, ending the opera with the plump Isolde (Soprano Anny Konetzni) lying mute and gasping on Tristan's body while the orchestra wabbled through the Liebestod. To Walter at Salzburg was allotted Tristan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gluck's Orptmis and Eurydice...
...applied for entrance to Missouri's law school, the University Registrar tactfully suggested that Lincoln could give him a "scholarship" to study law elsewhere. Negro Gaines declined to be sidetracked, got NAACP to bring suit for a writ of mandamus compelling Missouri to admit him. Thereupon the University threw out his application, ruled that, although Lincoln was a State college, its academic credits were not acceptable at the State University...