Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session of the Union in the U. S. In choosing his fellow junketeers, happy Mr. Fish overlooked Massachusetts' bush-bearded George Tinkham, a power on the House committee and inordinately fond of travel. As Congress adjourned, Mr. Tinkham was able to cable Mr. Fish: "We have thrown your invitation in the wastebasket...
Five years ago, to dissipate the blue funk into which collectivization had thrown the peasantry, each farm worker was granted his own small private piece of land on which he might raise a few cows, pigs, fruit, vegetables. The decree provided that the garden plots must adjoin the owner's cabin. Because in many villages houses are crowded close together, this stipulation could not always be followed, and the private plots in many cases were well away from the village, scattered around the collective fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property...
Last week the doors were thrown open. After hearing 227 witnesses and studying the reports of 50 auditors, the Grand Jury had indicted Moses Louis Annenberg on ten counts of income-tax evasion. Publisher Annenberg, said the Grand Jury, had wilfully neglected to pay $3,258,809.97 in taxes, plus penalties and interest of $2,289,574.92-a smashing total of $5,548,384.89, which made this the largest criminal tax-evasion case in U. S. history, not excepting Alphonse Capone...
...Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels in operating on children...
...practices his art to keep the ins in and the outs out. In modern times, only Dalai Lama who did not die mysteriously before reaching his majority has been Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso. In 1893, shortly before he took office, he thoughtfully ordered his regent and other advisers thrown into dungeons. As "Buddha of Mercy" he then had a long and prosperous life. If the 14th Reincarnation learns this much about the 13th, he may think it wise to do the same...