Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the other rulers of India's 562 Princely States, Faridkot will face sudden political loneliness when the British withdraw late this summer. The princes have to decide quickly whether to throw their lot with one of the new Indian nations or try to go it alone. Faridkot, together with the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharaja of Travancore, had declared he wished to retain his princely independence. But Gandhi threw his enormous prestige behind the Congress solution: end princely privilege. "Rulers," he told his visitor, "have only the right to exist if they become the trustees and servants...
...Throw Them Out." With such a ready-made situation, Local 713's membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
...other Communist-wired leaders exert in the Zone. Not all Local 713's members would fall for it. The Local's secretary-treasurer, Edward Gasking, a Negro schoolteacher, said that if the union's U.S. leaders urged action hostile to Canal Zone interests, "we'd throw them bodily...
...Kansas City, an official of Americans for Democratic Action. In addition, policy disputes will no doubt arise (in the corridors they are fast taking shape) over ultimate minimal world government versus Big Three emphasis, bonus versus "Citizens First, Voterans Second," and just how AVC should go about attempting to throw pot shots at the Truman Docrine...
...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...