Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor and ran respectable Martin Kennelly as a "reform" candidate. Elected, Kennelly did a fairly good job, but did not satisfy either the reformers or the machine politicians. Last fall he refused to work for or endorse his party's ticket, and the party got ready to throw Kennelly overboard...
Evan R. Dale, 38, is a chunky labor leader who has shouldered his way to the top of the A.F.L.'s Southern Illinois Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union. He likes to wear wide-brimmed hats, collect expensive shotguns, throw parties at his hunting lodge. He also likes to mix in politics; in 1952 he was a labor consultant to the Republican National Committee...
Scarcely a year ago, such Soviet threats might have been enough to throw many Europeans into a tizzy of alarm. Last week's Communist blustering seemed to misread the mood of Western Europe, and to be almost irrelevant. The fact seemed to be that in a slow, subsurface fashion, the people of Western Europe had finally made up their minds that German rearmament is inevitable. There was plenty of agitation in last week's parliamentary debating in Bonn and Paris, but local passions, not the Kremlin threats, were what caused...
...Revenue Service Auditor Elmer T. Ponto, 34, devised a simplified income-tax table which has already saved the Government $95,199 and is expected to save $250,000 annually, was rewarded with a $675 cash prize, less $121.50 tax, which added enough to his year's income to throw him into a higher tax bracket...
Although Middlebury outscored the Crimson from the floor, Coach Floyd Wilson's squad won the game from the free-throw line, setting 18 out of 24, against 7 out of 12 for Middlebury. The lead changed hands nine times in a game that left Harvard ahead 39-36 at half-time...