Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection, a message crossed the Syrian border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need not invent events to profit by them...
...Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into the Seine!", the rightists made a wild rush for the Concorde bridge leading to the National Assembly. In minutes, they reeled back in flight, blinded by gas grenades, battered by rifle butts, clubs and fists...
Instead of investing in one expensive "lifetime" watch, more and more people now buy inexpensive but serviceable watches, throw them away when they need repairs -or a more attractive model hits the market. Sales of low-priced ($15 and under) watches climbed from 6,000,000 five years ago to 8,876,000 last year, now hold 52% of the market. The company leading the march: U.S. Time Corp., whose $6.95 to $17 Timex watches have captured almost 23% of the total market...
...these smoldering grudges, the U.S. recession has added new coals. Peru, for example, fears Congress' threat to raise lead and zinc tariffs, which would throw 35,000 Peruvian miners out of jobs and slash the country's dollar supply. The Communists, exploiting the anti-U.S. opening, have raised the membership of their illegal party to more than...
...hammer throw, another surprise Ithacan performance eased out the Crimson's John DuMoulin, who took second place. Paul Boguski made the best toss of his career to win the event at 177 feet, 7 inches...