Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contamination. Meanwhile, some 500 enemy prisoners, brought up by train from Pusan, were being handed over at Panmunjom to the Communists, who had set up eight large white tents and seven smaller ones to receive them. Among these there had been some disturbances-apparently a last attempt to throw mud on the U.N. A group of Chinese, most of them pitiful cripples, had momentarily refused to disembark from an LST at Pusan...
...Vengeance, Companions!" He rambled, he screamed, he repeated. But his emotion, freed of any cumbersome logic, began to sway the mob: "Companions, they can throw bombs and spread rumors, but all that concerns us is that they do not get their way ... If to destroy the evil and dishonest I must go down in history as a tyrant, I shall do so with pleasure . . . And may God grant that I won't have to employ the most terrible punishments...
...Jimmy was more than just a devil with the women. He had intelligence, and the brashness to throw it around. With his smiling ruthlessness he went up, up, up in Henderson & Grieve, was soon running it. When he tired of Madge, he turned her over to Henderson, and Henderson was grateful. Jimmy got rich sponging on wealthy women and outsmarting timid competitors. By the mid-'30s he was a big man, but for his restless ambition not nearly big enough. He took Madge back when she picked up a big chunk of money as a rich...
...Insomnia Worse." Bennett was constantly in need of anodynes. He suffered torments from neuralgia, headaches, liver trouble, stomachache, boils, and a "speech chaos, not stammer, not stutter, a paralysis which . . . made him throw back his head epileptically and bite the air until release came." His most horrendous affliction was insomnia, a subject which seems to occupy more space in his diaries and letters than even his obsession with word productivity. Day after day, he noted "3¼ hours last night," "half dead with fatigue and nerve strain," "great state of exhaustion" or "no creative energy left. Insomnia worse...
Weight man Bob Curran heaved the hammer over 163 feet for a first place there, while Phil Pratt captured the discus with a throw of 149 feet four and one-eighth inches...