Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fielder's Choice. In Mineola, N.Y., Construction Worker Dennis Smith vigorously denied that he had struck his wife, said: "All I did was pick her up and throw her out the door...
...generous. This is why we pay no attention to the silly intrigues of a few dozen would-be politicians and their followers." Then Franco threatened: "If they should ever disturb the realization of our heroic destiny . . . we would open the flood of blue shirts and red berets that would throw them...
...school class, many experts agree, invariably bogs down to the pace of its dullest and most recalcitrant pupils. What can be done about it? In the current Atlantic Monthly, Ohio High-School Teacher Caspar D. Green offers a remedy as drastic as any suggested yet. Says Green, in effect: throw the recalcitrants...
...York State taxpayers into helping them to build a new stadium, they crossed the Hudson to Jersey City for a second "opening game," the first of seven regular-season "home" games they will play there this year. Somebody gave Jersey City Mayor Bernard J. Berry a ball to throw out. Came time for the historic throw. "Mr. Mayor, the ball," an aide prompted. "The ball?" echoed His Honor with surprise. "I gave it to some kid." The game itself, complicated by the poor playing surface in Roosevelt Stadium, was a literal comedy of errors (eight of them, five...
Deductible Comfort. Air-conditioning manufacturers, who do something about the weather as well as complain about it, say that hot and cold spells still throw seasonal estimates out of kilter; e.g., demand rose 200% during a six-week heat wave last July and August. But the trend to bigger, more expensive units has sharply reduced impulse buying. Government agencies also have boosted non-seasonal equipment sales. For example, the Federal Housing Administration recently approved inclusion of central air-conditioning in basic home-mortgage loans. The Internal Revenue Service permits sufferers from hay fever, asthma and heart disease to deduct...