Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bodies were dug from the ruins, laid in piles for burial. But the broiling sun soon made the stench so unbearable that thousands of corpses had to be thrown into the quake fissures to get rid of them. Their water mains and pumping stations smashed, many parched survivors scooped their drinks from dirty ditches and contaminated wells. Puckish and unsated, the elements drove icy winds down from the Andes, and on the winds rode storm clouds which dropped on the shelterless, part-injured, part-naked, part-diseased population one of the most violent rainstorms Chile has ever...
...same time, Hicks said that he would ignore the defl thrown at him by Thomas Dorgan, father of the Teachers' Oath Bill, who demands Hicks' dismissal from Harvard. Dorgan, an ex-representative now referred to as a "legislative agent," had requested Hicks to debate him on Communism and had offered to rent Langdell Hall for the proceedings, with gate receipts to charity...
...points for Harvard. The third competing Sophomore, "Bunny" Barnes, at 155, produced easily the most exciting match of the afternoon as he pressed Scull into the overtime and drew with him even after that. Twice Barnes had his opponent in a near fall, and once he himself was nearly thrown...
With Premier Edouard Daladier about to make a swing around France's North African possessions to promote "empire solidarity," France's East African colonists in French Somaliland were suddenly thrown into a panic by reports that 80,000 Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border...
...Advisory Council, without recommending that this cumbrous bin be thrown out altogether, proposed beginning at once to shovel less coal in, shovel more coal out. Instead of upping the present tax rates of 1% on employer and 1% on employe automatically to the maximum of 3% apiece by 1949 as the Act provides, the Council advised calling a halt for "further study" after they have been upped to 1½% January...