Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with his other achievements, President Eisenhower has done much to pull the Republicans to a new unity, and to make them stand for all he stands for. Had Leonard Hall allowed Ike's heart attack to throw the party into bickering and confusion over possible successors, the G.O.P. would certainly have lost much ground that it cannot afford to lose. The Republicans owe more than they know to Mr. Hall...
...field events, Jack Murphy and Jerry Fields will high jump, Kip Smith and Don Richards will vault, Cohen and possibly Warren Plath or Mayo will broad jump, and Pete Harpel will throw the hammer...
...lecherous character, he is not indifferent to the people around him--which makes Adams' frequent failure to react to others' lines somewhat unsatisfactory. When he does react, it is by mugging or with a boogey slouch which gives an unfortunate impression of adolescent youth. Because Adams seems unable to throw himself completely into the part, and in spite of Miss Boyko's strenuous efforts to rush through her lines in order to buoy the play, the pace lags...
Last week reputable union leaders who fear Hoffa's influence on the U.S. labor movement had reason to hope that the tough little man from Detroit had finally overreached himself. In New York a fierce rearguard action by Hoffa opponents threatened to throw into the courts Hoffa's scheme for seizing control of the Joint Council; the Hoffa-I.L.A. pact was temporarily stymied. None of this seemed to abash Jimmy Hoffa, a man who has survived the assaults of congressional investigations, the courts and rival union leaders. "Jimmy Hoffa," says Jimmy, "can take care of himself...
...where he ran ten-day training courses for hundreds of picked followers. He created an amateur army of commandos who flung vegetables and abuse at rival speakers or broke up their meetings. He broadened his appeal, organized affiliates for peasants, youth, workers, professionals. He preached only discontent, "throw the rascals out." As it wore on, his campaign grew vaguer. "My program is to have no program," he declared. He put up 819 candidates, made each take an oath never to take a position not approved personally by Poujade under penalty of "all the punishments reserved for traitors." What punishment...