Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to leave the session after this uncompromising document was thrown at A.F. of L. was tough Joseph Curran, president of C.I.O.'s new National Maritime Union. Asked why the meeting had broken up, he snapped: "Hell, you can't expect men to come out of a dead faint and go right on negotiating." George Harrison, added the hardboiled seaman, was "still quivering...
...upwards of one hundred thirty teeth arranged in double rows around the upper and lower parts of the jaw. Flat on the sides, these teeth are triangular in shape and sharp at the points. There is only one way to escape a man-eating shark if a person is thrown into the water beside him. Kick the right and left legs alternately and move the arms in a windmill fashion; the prospective victim should also call for help in a sharp tone. If this does not work, go back for further instructions. The man-eating shark can often be seen...
...basis of their capacity to reach technique or to foster creative writing. With a few additional instructors, more individual conferences, of the highest importance to the student, would be possible. Through such a division of English A-1 the needs of two hundred who hold different objectives but are thrown together almost at random could be corrected to a degree consistent with the significance of learning how to write...
...last two years the function of the committee has rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
...German" to Adolf Hitler, who has laid down in Mein Kampf the mystic affinity of all "German blood." Last week "Germans" in the Free State of Danzig finally forced the dissolution of the last remaining political party opposed to the Danzig Nazis, the Catholic Centrists, whose leaders were thrown into jail by Nazi stalwarts, charged with "treason." This made Danzig a 100% Nazi State, nearly justified the New York Times's, excited headline: "DANZIG NAZIS LINK FREE CITY TO REICH...