Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sculptor Milles has long been fascinated by the legend of the winged horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...
When he refused to attend propaganda movies, Fujii was brought before a "People's Court." As punishment, he was thrown into the middle of a ring of prisoners, then kicked and beaten from one side to the other...
...tall office building with his back to the winter view of beautiful Sydney Harbor. Two hundred seagoing ships were tied up there for lack of freight or bunker coal. Australians were shivering in heatless houses. Electricity for cooking, lighting and hot baths was rationed, and 650,000 had been thrown out of work because their factories had no coal. Comrade Williams, president of the Miners Federation, had called a coal strike...
...digging a small crater which filled with mud and water. Steadily the explosions grew more violent; the steam smelled of sulphur and broke out strongly enough to toss rocks high in the air. But still there was no hot lava or other volcanic matter. The rocks and sand thrown out were just local material torn loose by the steam...
...well-timed strike for Milne, a balding, stooping, ex-insurance agent whose gold mining has not been as profitable as his selling of gold-mine shares. In 1947 the gold-mining companies he had promoted with Johannesburg's Norbert Erleigh were thrown into receivership (TIME, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15, 1947). Both Milne and Erleigh are under indictment on charges of fraud...