Word: thrown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
Berlin's people had been living mainly on the airlift's dehydrated potatoes, powdered eggs, powdered milk, dried vegetables and occasional cans of meat; this week they would get better food, and more of it. The blockade had shut down much of Berlin's industry, thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
...change was dictated by a rumor that strikebreakers would be brought into the plant of the Canadian Johns-Manville Co., chief employer in Asbestos. Barricades manned by club-wielding strikers were thrown up on all roads into the town. All cars were stopped and searched. Clergymen, doctors and well-known businessmen were allowed to pass and a few newsmen got through, but they were warned to take no pictures. Policemen in Asbestos huddled inside the Johns-Manville property waiting for reinforcements...
Homing Rockets. The fact is that the new power plants (turbo-jets, ram-jets and rockets) have thrown air tactics into unprecedented confusion. One of the few points of wide agreement is that guns will play a reduced part in future air combat. Their effective range (300 to 400 yards) is too low, and the airplanes will flash past each other too fast for guns to be of much...
Cliff Crosby popped out to Amirault but Walt Coulson drove Dunn home with a single, and Foynes scored on a base hit by Hal Moffle. Coulson was thrown out at the plate, but Ernie Mannino walked to fill the bases. Tom Cavanaugh then fanned to end the inning and with the bases loaded again in the second, Cavanaugh popped out to the shortstop...