Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Harry Truman's Chicago endorsement of Averell Harriman seemed to throw the nomination open again, some of Kefauver's supporters urged him to jump back into the contest. Kefauver refused; Phredonia's lessons were too strong in him. "I felt," he says, "that I had given my word." He worked hard and faithfully to switch his delegates to Stevenson -and his efforts helped give Stevenson a first-ballot nomination...
...would agree, Nixon said: "I respectfully submit that for us to have followed this advice would have been not only naive but dangerous to our national security. To have taken such action would have been like telling police officers that they should discard their weapons, provided the lawbreakers would throw away their machine guns...
...clean-up crews struggled with the tangled wreckage, Caldarelli went before a coroner's jury. Why had he rushed over to throw the switch the wrong way? Dazedly, Caldarelli could only say: "It suddenly occurred to me that there must be something wrong with the switch. I don't know what made me think that." The jury returned a noncommittal verdict of accidental death...
Television networks will throw around more money this fall and winter than ever before, put on more spectaculars, more color, more old movies ($150 million worth) than have ever been seen. It will, quite obviously, be the biggest season to date. A sampling of shows to come...
Princess, princess, silver maiden, Throw your casement open; see- On the terrace I am singing; Come and take the road with...