Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparently staked all on the chance of being able to produce documents sufficiently charged with social dynamite to excuse violation of Soviet diplomatic immunity. The Sunday Observer, a newspaper of Sir William's own party (Conservative) spoke last week of "the dilemma in which the British Government has been thrown by its lack of coordination" (i.e. by "Jix's" independent action...
...Duce, as though in adoring supplication. Taking careful, point-blank aim she pulled the trigger; but at that same instant a band struck up the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," and Signor Mussolini threw back his head proudly to listen. The bullet sped, but not into his brain. He had thrown back his head far enough so that the leaden slug only clipped an atom of flesh from the tip of his nose...
...these men. There was an impasse predicted when General Andrews was first removed to a less active position, in favour of an official actively- supported by the AntiSaloom League. Only when he issues his statement of the situation during his two years in office will some light be thrown on the processes which underlie the great task of enforcement...
Will thousands of aliens in Mexico and Canada who commute daily into the U. S. to gain their livelihood, be thrown out of work by an immigration ruling issued last week by the U. S. Department...
Going on Mr. Darrow showed that criminals, besides being poor were al- most always poorly educated. With our present system, he showed, great numbers of young people are forced through the required number of schools years and are then thrown, without any means of support out into the world to shift for themselves. Quite naturally a great number of young people who were born morons are not fitted for intellectual work with out the necessary training they are unable to do other skilled work, and soon sink to a position in which they can only kep alive by petty larceny...