Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought were essential. The Senate had defiantly voted a bill that was worse, from his point of view, than the one he had vetoed. The Senate's 62-to-15 vote had said to him in effect: all right, if you don't like it, you can throw price control out the window again-veto...
...outward appearances the anti-Lapham campaign was the idea of a 73-year-old, kewpie-like man named Henry F. Budde. Little Mr. Budde is the publisher of some weekly throwaways ("You can't cancel your subscription, he'll just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with...
...meat and poultry today; oil, wheat, and textiles tomorrow," he claimed. "Pressure groups in Washington have a way of using a wedge to open any gap they see. I have criticised O.P.A. often, but we don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater...
Bowles' plan is predicated on the assumption that price and rent control will be continued until the danger of inflation is past. He is ". . . . profoundly convinced that the American Congress, after supporting the stabilization program throughout the war, is not likely to throw its benefits away just as we are entering the home stretch back to peacetime operations." It seems that Congress is letting Chester Bowles down along with the rest of us. "Tomorrow Without Fear" presents a bold, beautiful, but amazingly naive plan for American prosperity. It is worth reading if only to see what we are missing...
Unless you want to find yourself with nothing to say as that post-game cocktail party, throw away your Reader's Digest, dab your ear-lobes with DDT and get over to the Laffmovie to catch the latest in Marxist doctrine...