Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francisco Cardoso, the official candidate, had the backing of President Getulio Vargas and Adhemar de Barros, the state's political boss. But that turned out to be no help at all. "Shall we throw the robbers out?" croaked his long-shot opponent, a gaunt, unshaven ex-schoolmaster named Jânio Quadros. Quadros whipped the wave of Paulista protest still higher by pointing out that the government had paved streets in new real-estate developments for its speculator friends at a cost of $4,480,000 a mile, of which $4,000,000 was straight graft. "The people wanted...
...Nixon throw out the first ball," says Eisenhower. "I think I'll try to work in a few holes of golf that day. I really can't be bothered with the opening of the baseball season...
...admirers copied him, actors and managers feared him. At one time he was barred from twelve theaters. In 1929, he "sloshed" American Actress Lillian Foster so hard ("a voice like a ventriloquist's doll") that she cornered him at his table in the Savoy and slapped him. "Throw this woman out!" cried Swaffer. The headwaiter did. Three years ago, when Miss Foster died, Swaffer's lead on his story was: "This is the obituary of a very clever actress who ruined herself by slapping my face...
Typist on the Beach. "Pierre is no good," his mother used to say, as she let him have more francs to throw away. On the eve of his wedding, he chased his bride with a shotgun; she divorced him after their honeymoon...
Moved by their chairman's eloquence, the Assembly delegates voted a rousing approval: 50 to 0, with five abstentions, four of them French (two Gaullists, two Socialists). The Foreign Ministers, whose approval in effect would bind their governments, were less ready to throw in with the plan. France's Georges Bidault tried his best to be enthusiastic ("I am happy to pay you . . . the tribute: 'Salute to the Adventurers'"), but he spoke with the voice of weary experience: "Let us beware of thinking . . . that all things are possible to hearts that are sincere...