Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Throw Him Out!" The House Un-American Activities Subcommittee was not especially interested in the story that it had drawn from Stenhouse. The committee moved on, but that was not the end of the story for John Stenhouse or the 9,000 people of Mercer Island, a pleasant place (connected to Seattle by a mile-long floating bridge) where he settled with his wife and two daughters in 1951. There had ended his groping for roots. He built a simple, cedar-sided house among the madrona trees, opened an insurance agency in the business district. He was ending his second...
...rather resign and crawl into a hole somewhere." Late last month some 250 islanders thronged to a meeting in the Mercer Crest School to discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
...Basketball rules committee last week widened the foul lane from six to twelve feet and changed the foul shot rule so that the "one and one" rule, which gives a player an extra shot if he makes his first free throw, will apply for the entire 40 minute. Fouls in the last three minutes have been penalized with two foul shots during the past the past two seasons...
...mere vision of such total automation for industry has touched off a siren of alarm among U.S. labor unions; they fear that the already swift spread toward automation will throw thousands of workers out of jobs. Before a congressional committee investigating the stock market last week (see WALL STREET), General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice took special care to debunk the bugaboo. Said he: "Automation is the making of tools to produce more efficiently . . . It's progress...
When the submarine wolf pack strikes, Krause's true weapons are training, character and a sense of duty that overcome fatigue and everything the subs can throw at him. For 48 terrible hours he fights his destroyer and directs as exciting a battle as Author Forester's famed Horatio Hornblower ever experienced under sail. In the desperate game of hit-and-run, Krause is frequently fooled by the U-boat commanders, but as he fights, he learns. Ships are torpedoed and men are left to drown because to try to save them would mean to endanger more lives...