Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mild Bob Anderson was not trying to throw his weight around. His action was part of the Eisenhower effort to get control of defense policy back where the Constitution put it: in the hands of the President and his top civilian officials...
FRANCE, where EDC was born, is now trying hard to disown it. The French cabinet demands an impossible price for ratification of EDC: that the Franco-German dispute over the Saar be settled in favor of France; that the U.S. bail France out of Indo-China; that Britain throw in with EDC as a counterbalance to the Germans; that "the integrity of the French Army" (but not of anybody else's) be written into EDC by means of nine protocols. A German diplomat, reflecting his booming country's self-confidence, scoffed: "Father Pleven expected a girl. It turned...
...Rome's hottest day of the summer, and a dismal day for Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Monarchists and neo-Fascists stuck stonily to their decision to throw all their votes against him. His long-time allies of the center, the Liberals, Social Democrats and Republicans, would not give him even one of their 38 votes. The Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni and their friends the Communists sat in the Chamber of Deputies behind smug smiles of triumph. "Italy." said owlish Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti placidly, "will certainly and inevitably pass through the Communist experience...
...gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer personality bowl the place over." Starlet Terry Moore was breathlessly thrilled: "Shirley is so lovable you want to throw your arms about her like an old shoe...
Dennis wears well, much better than the frayed tempers of his parents and the other unlucky grownups who have to deal with him. Not every youngster of four is original enough to throw rice pudding instead of rice as the newlyweds leave the church. And not too many grasp the basic economic facts of life so quickly. Says Dennis in answer to a slower kid's question: "Father's Day?. Well, it's just like Mother's Day, only you can buy a cheaper present...