Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Gate last week a bomb thrown into a bus loaded with Arab fellaheen killed four, wounded 36. Police arrested three Jews, a twelve-year-old schoolgirl alleged to be the bomb-thrower by the Arabs. Two Arab peddlers were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem's Old City on the same spot where a Jewish father and son had been killed a few days before, a much-photographed lemonade vendor was killed in the new city. Near Tel Aviv an Arab taxicab was fired upon, with one killed, two wounded...
...speaking there inevitably must do, he sought to apply Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to the present state of the Union. Using 644 words to Lincoln's 266, Franklin Roosevelt pictured the people's Government threatened by unnamed enemies: ". . .When a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up. . . . The fight must be fought through to a decision so clear that it is accepted as being beyond recall." In Lincoln's case, "a generation passed before the new unity became accepted." In Franklin Roosevelt's case...
...Copperheads."Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the President and Senators and Congressmen as in the case of this 75th Congress. Never before have we had so many Copperheads-and you will remember it was the Copperheads who, in the days of the War Between the States, tried their best to make Lincoln and his Congress give up the fight, let the nation remain split in two and return to peace-peace at any price...
Even now I draw a veil over what followed; there weren't enough people there for a proper panic; I chiefly remember Gilbert Miller's stentorian voice from the centre of the stalls demanding that so-and-so (the organ pipe, not Wood) be instantly thrown out; there were also comments reflecting upon Professor Wood and myself...
...best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition...