Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long after little Hollis and his mother went to bed, as the ship's bell struck midnight, they were all but thrown from their berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...
Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...money that Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden has just gained at The Hague after weeks of anxious toil (see p. 25) has been thrown away in a few days on the sands of Palestine, from which we shall never receive a penny in return either in cash, trade, prestige or political advantage...
...eager candidate for the Gillett seat in the Senate is onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller. Last week, disgusted with Committeeman Liggett's inept maneuvre, he called him a "Jonah," said he ought to be thrown "overboard...
Angry depositors, just told by the receiver that they might eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...