Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What can the President do about it? It has been suggested that Lewis be tossed into jail. The men stay out. No coal is mined. Then, of course, the government can throw the men into jail. No coal. Or if he wishes, Mr. Truman can draft all the miners. But if they still refuse to go into the mines, shooting them will get him no coal, and the nation must go without heat, steel, railroad traffic, and the other necessities of industrial life. If he tries to send the Army in to do the work, labor violence and mining accidents...
...would be Speaker of the Republican House, and as such he had much more responsibility and a lot of work. The Steering Committees of both Houses would meet this week. One of the party's first, minor jobs would be to throw out some 600 Capitol police, messengers, elevator operators, etc., and distribute that patronage among deserving Republicans. Leslie Biffle, Secretary of the Senate, whom even Republicans liked and admired, would be a casualty of the patronage system...
...antiques-crammed mansion on an Amsterdam canal. His own paintings brought five times what they had before he confessed. Van Meegeren said he had an offer from a Manhattan gallery to come to the U.S. and paint portraits "in the 17th Century manner" at $6,000 a throw...
...later the Bruins tied up the contest on as freakish a play as has occurred this season. When the ball went out of bounds in fairly deep Harvard territory, the Crimson right wing threw it in to his halfback. The half-back, evidently thinking that he should make the throw-in, picked up the ball and started to the sidelines. The referee blew his whistle, ruled that a legal throw-in had been made, and called a hands penalty on the Crimson. On the subsequent free kick, Guiseppo Antone nudged the ball in for the only Brown score...
Harrier Hal May, a consistent Crimson placer this fall, stepped on a nail in the middle of the course, was forced to throw his track shoe on the side of the trail and went ahead with one bare foot to place fourth among the Varsity squad...