Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German wheatfield in just this manner by his wingman Lieut. George Green . . . Lieut. Green even went so far as to strafe and kill the German soldiers who were attempting to capture McKennon before he landed, picked him up and flew out with McKennon sitting on his lap, having thrown away his parachute in order to make room in the cockpit...
Wrote an awed reviewer in the New York Times, with just a tongue-tip in cheek: "We should not be surprised to hear . . . that the intellectuals had discovered Mr. Capp's opera, and that words like dichotomy, plangent and ambivalent were being thrown at him, wrapped in pages from Kafka and Dostoevski . . . The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a cultural event of enormous significance...
...Holy Cow!" At week's end new light had been thrown into some murky corners...
...search had been thrown off because the rafts had drifted so rapidly southwest after being spotted by the B17. The Privateer's pilot, about 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu, was all ready to turn back; he had gone on only because the navigator had asked for eight more minutes of flight on the same heading to save altering his flight plan...
Almost 1,200 Boston settlement house children and adults jammed Sanders Theater last night for PBH's Band-Glee Club Christmas Concert. Earlier in the day, PBH men had thrown their annual Santa Claus party for 25 underprivileged children of Cambridge in the Brooks House parlor...