Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point is the 13-week strike at Detroit's Square D electrical-equipment plant, where the Communist-led independent United Electrical Workers walked out over a company demand for a no-strike clause in the contract. After weeks of negotiation-and no progress-the company decided to throw its gates open and try to break the strike of its 1,200 employees. By last week 450 workers-more than half of them U.E. members-had braved threats and flying fists to go to work, giving rise to scenes reminiscent of the strike-filled '30s (see cut). The company...
...race began when a conductor on one of London's big two-deckers tried to throw off a passenger who boarded his bus when it stopped at a red light. The ensuing battle landed them both in court, where, after due consideration, Magistrate Paul Bennett decided "that a citizen has the right to board a bus whenever it is stationary." The magistrate's decision knocked EDC out of the headlines and rattled teacups all over London. The outraged London Transport Executive ordered conductors to defy the court and to go right on discouraging between-stop boarding...
...laugh after another, until, of course, the Scots crew gets the last laugh. Actor Douglas does astonishingly well to hold his own in such fast comic company. Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried...
Kinsey carefully explained that he was forming no further conclusions about the mores and manners of the Mochicas. He pointed out to interested Peruvians that his main studies center on the sex life of modern North Americans, but he hopes that what he learns of pre-Inca habits may throw some added light on his contemporary research...
...larger "officers," who lead and direct the march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...