Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Leopold offered the Premiership to Socialist Leader Emile Vandervelde. The Catholics refused to support him. Last week the King turned again to van Zeeland. The "folded arms" strikes sweeping France had been copied by Belgian stevedores, diamond cutters, miners, munitions workers. Less tolerant than French police, Belgian police threw the strikers forcibly out of mines and factories they had occupied. In this atmosphere, Socialists and Liberals still refused to support van Zeeland. The King asked him to try again. Again he failed. The King spent a day talking turkey to Belgian politicians, told van Zeeland to try once more...
...When I went to a party, I could not stop. When I came home after a two-day absence I bought flowers and threw them through the door. If they didn't come flying out, I would go in. ... Later I went to one of these Oxford Group meetings . . . "-Brig. General Erie D. Luce, U. S. A., retired...
...repeatedly threw his landlady, who was attempting to dispossess him, out of his apartment, causing her to be hospitalized for bruises, shock, a possible fractured...
Judged solely on his record Johnson was one of the outstanding wrestlers developed by the man whom he succeeds. Out of 25 bouts Johnson threw his opponent in 16 and was returned a decision in eight others while suffering a single defeat. He was captain of both his Freshman and Varsity teams...
With the bases loaded John Adzigian took Collier's difficult grounder and tossed it in the direction of second base. Tom Bilodeau raced over fast, took the ball in his bare hand, sailed over the bag, and threw off balance to John Sullivan on first retiring the side...