Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murphy says he has spoken to about 100 players in the past few days and that most of them believe that the meeting is just an attempt to throw them the bone, and that the move to give the players a voice came not out of benevolence but out of the realization that such a result was inevitable...
Come, come, TIME. . . . That particular bit of orchestration cost me four nights of sleep. If you name the author of the text, couldn't you also name the composer, so that my friends and enemies will know where to throw the posies or a dead...
...intervened in his home territory's primary fight. Yes, he had talked it over with Kansas City's Democratic Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew and heir of Harry Truman's political mentor and sometime convict, the late Tom Pendergast). Yes, he had encouraged Jim Pendergast to throw his organization's support to one of Slaughter's two opponents: a politically unknown, young (37) lawyer named Axtell...
Wisconsin's Republican Representative Frank B. Keefe (who signed the majority report along with California's Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart) took a middle ground in a supplemental opinion. Items: the Democratic majority had tried "to throw as soft a light as possible on the Washington scene"; General George Marshall and Admiral Harold Stark "must bear their full share of responsiblity"; the U.S. people must be better informed of the course of U.S. diplomacy than they were...
More than anything else, the Minnesota primary showed the complete political mastery of Harold Stassen in his own home state. The big test will come next fall, when he plans to throw his active support to some 30 borderline congressional elections in an attempt to win Republican control of Congress...