Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French propaganda has not been entirely successful. Last week French zone Austrians turned out to cheer and throw flowers at German P.O.W.s (guarded by U.S. Nisei) moving northward from Italy, where they were captured, to a new camp at Bavaria's Bad Aibling. Embarrassed French authorities ordered the prisoner convoys to move only at night in the future...
...hard as I could, was sworn at, slapped him again, and stood my ground until he slunk off to tell the principal on me. That ended snowballing in the Wrong Place. I had to go out next recess into the field and throw snowballs, just to show I could take...
Federal courts had no right to throw out the case of A.L.O.F. Bell of "Mankind United" (a California religious sect), who had sued FBI agents for unlawful search and seizure. The federal courts had dismissed the case on the ground that there was no federal question involved. The Court ruled that it was for the citizen to decide whether his constitutional rights had been violated, not the courts. Except in the case of "insubstantial or frivolous pleas," the federal courts had to listen...
Last week, stopping off in Manhattan on her way to the relics of the Europe she loves, she carried her latest book (Testimonios III). In it she described herself as "a South American potted cactus." She has been trying to throw the pot away since she founded (in 1931) the literary magazine Sur (South) in the forefront of a national movement in Argentine letters. Later she started her own publishing house, Ediciones Sur, to publish books she likes...
Every spring Bee pores over country weeklies for ideas, peers at a big office map through his steel-rimmed bifocals, and plots out a trip. Of his style of writing, which is more like country weekly stuff than P-D prose, he said last week: "I throw conventionalism and standardization to the winds and write by ear. I let my wife read it, if possible, and we always compromise and make the changes she suggests...