Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...
Arnulfo was dapper, yanqui-baiting ex-President Arnulfo Arias, an old enemy of Remón but a politico who has the support of the powerful Authentic Revolutionary Party and would have won the 1948 presidential elections if an electoral jury had not thrown out 2,714 of his ballots. When the Supreme Court declared ousted Daniel Chanis still the lawful President, Remón went straight to Arnulfo's Bella Vista home and invited the man he helped toss out in 1941 to take over at the palace...
...Intelligence, scientists guessed, must have collected an appreciable quantity of radioactive dust thrown up to the stratosphere by the U.S.S.R.'s bomb blast revealed last September. The two fissionable materials, uranium 235 and plutonium, leave different residues. If enough dust was collected by high-flying aircraft, the residues could have been identified by laboratory analysis...
...have color television now." This seemingly innocent proposition, proffered to the Federal Communications Commission by the Columbia Broadcasting System, has thrown the whole television industry into a frenzy of activity, alarms and bitter accusations...