Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tenth, the Crimson was tied with the Lions, 4 to 4. The Columbia pitcher shook off one sign. He didn't want to throw another fast ball to slugger Don Butters. The stocky third baseman had already hit one home run and the Columbia pitcher couldn't afford to let him hit another, not with a man on second and the score tied...
...World Socialists of Boston have challenged the affirmative team to defend to defend their stand for inheritance, tonight at the Socialists' headquarters in Boston. The College's debater's said they would use the contest as practice for Yale on Friday, while the Socialists called it "an opportunity to throw light on property relationships...
...Gwirtzman's "humorous" report of Mr. Buckley's lecture indicates that Mr. Gwirtzman believes in laughter as a spring tonic. I believe in laughter, too, but not at the expense of a young man who has the courage to throw out some ideas--regarded as unfashionable by the Liberal conformist--as to what is necessary to the very survival of this nation...
Fine Whipping Boy. For those who raised the cry that the increased automation in new plants will throw people out of work, Ford had a ready answer: "Automation is a perfectly logical, tactical propaganda weapon, for the labor leaders. It's a fine whipping boy . . . [But] let's not kid ourselves . . . that automation is a genuine current issue. It's a grossly inflated issue-as most labor economists well know." From 1950 to 1955, a period of great modernization at Ford, jobs actually increased by 30,000 (up 21%) and wages by more than $381 million...
...wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow; and he can also, occasionally, throw the pillow across the hall at a particularly dull archdeacon. The chief merit of The Republic of Letters (besides establishing the author as one of that republic's leading citizens) is a feeling it generates in the reader-the feeling that the books under discussion must be read...