Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury: "Let your verdict be a strong one. Let it be the kill. Let it be the death blow to all these lies and defamations." The jury's verdict against the vicar, whose yearly salary...
...Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge the Master of Foxhounds with throwing a live fox to his dogs. "I have never," said the huntsman, "thrown a live cub to hounds. It is well known that this is bad for the hounds...
...support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown on the market. Cash corn had been driven as much as 40? below the support price, and wheat down to 20? below its support level...
Since Widener Library will now be thrown open to Radcliffe girls doing specialized research, Radcliffe's library will be relieved of all but course reading in a plan designed to reduce the current collection from...
...requirement that union officers must file non-communist affidavits should be thrown out. It has no part in our framework of labor relations. If a strike is established to be a conspiracy against the government, other laws are sufficient to handle it. Another measure that will need examination is the question of political action by unions: one side argues that such action is an integral part of union policy today, the other that no union member should be required to support a policy he may not agree with...