Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sand-pitted beer parlors answer to the call of Herr Ober. For 35 years South West Africa (pop. 450,000). taken from Germany at Versailles and put under a League of Nations mandate, has been run by the Union of South Africa, whose Nationalist government has long wanted to throw off U.N. surveillance and incorporate it as a fifth province...
Everywhere he goes, Oistrakh is followed by awe-struck reviews, but none of them has been able to isolate the essence of his genius. Accompanist Vladimir Yam-polsky thinks it is "an extra quality that none of the others has," and specifies Oistrakh's uncanny ability to throw himself into the proper mood the instant he begins to play...
...some observers, the return to religion is actually a revolt against revolt. As previous generations felt it necessary to throw off old orthodoxies, so this generation is ready to discard yesterday's iconoclasm, which had become a sort of orthodoxy...
...unstated premise that the only way for Harvard to deal with the national problem is to increase its own numbers. As Saturday's editorial pointed out, however, it would be quite possible to deal with the problem without expanding Harvard College. The University could still prepare others to teach, throw its energies into research on the problem and, above all, hold up its own standards as an example to the nation--in case it does find itself unable to enlarge the College without lowering its quality...
...were looking for apples to throw at the window of a girl we know when the policeman fired," Friedman said last night. "After the first shot, we naturally started to run. When he fired again and threatened to hit us, we stopped," he continued...