Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next week all of New Orleans will quit work, put on a-million dollars' worth of costumes, and spill noisily into the streets. There will be 13 parades with bands, torchlights, and scores of magnificent floats. On Carnival Day a million people will jam along Canal Street, jostle, throw confetti, sing, and, quite possibly, get more than slightly tight...
...Gandhi's sons gently laid more sandalwood atop the corpse, the throng pressed wildly in. Screaming men tried to get close enough to place a stick of sandalwood on the pyre. Hysterical women clamored for one last look; some tried to throw themselves on the pyre. Soldiers and police had to beat the crowd back with lathis (police sticks), just as they had beaten Gandhi's nonviolent followers in scores of demonstrations...
...Tampa, where papaya trees withered overnight and shivering residents stood in queues two blocks long to buy kerosene for their stoves, snow fell for the first time since 1940. Tuscaloosa, Ala. had eight inches, and Meridian, Miss. had five. In Knoxville, a motorist became so enraged at the snowball-throwing of University of Tennessee students that he jumped out of his car, pistol in hand, and dared them to throw just one more. They respectfully refrained...
Lombardo persisted. "The Marshall Plan is an encouragement of production. . . ." The lion-dominated crowd chanted its dissent : "Your speech is written with Dunn's fountain pen."* Cried one delegate: "Traitor! The Marshall Plan is an American attempt to capture markets and throw European workers into unemployment...
...last remnants of student riots was "Bloody Monday," a day every year when the Sophomore would attack the Freshmen en masse and if possible throw them into the Charles. Eliot told his faculty to take no notice, and it wasn't very long before even "Bloody Monday" had died a natural death...