Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later high officers of the general staff, pistols in hand, were desperately trying to stop the flight. . . . Soldiers straggled past-useless and without arms because they had thrown them away...
...votes cast, six were thrown out because signature were lacking, while 36 were improperly marked. The contest was so tight between Burwell, Marvin and Brooks that the tellers checked the court four times...
...school language, just about. It is not right or left-it is a question for national decision on a very important problem of Government. We are the only nation in the world that has not solved that problem. We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce...
...francs and horrifies him by tearing it up and throwing it into the Marne. Not for a long time can Laurent steel himself to confess that while he was making his grandiose speech about poetry and greed, he was quietly pocketing 500 of the francs he pretended to have thrown away...
...Temple has grown up, it is time that Hollywood stopped exploiting her round little face, took about fifteen pounds off her, and let her act. If she were given a chance, Miss Temple could act very well, as she proved in "Wee Willie Winkie"; but too often she is thrown into a saccarhine musical cocktail just to appease the Tired Business Man. Such a picture is "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...