Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
...Missiles were thrown through windows at Newnham College [for women] ... at buses and at street lamps. In Senate-House yard, a heavy explosive charge was detonated, and some 70 panes of old crown glass were smashed...
...Good luck, Mr. Button-bring us a piece of U.S. democracy." That's what 19-year-old freshman Dick Button read when he unwrapped the cellophane from oranges thrown at him in Prague last winter during the European men's figure skating championships. He didn't let the crowd down...
When spring graduation took the squad's top four men, including Captain Adam Foster who for two years had been number one man, Coach Jack Barnaby's headaches were many. Then he took a real look at two of Cory Winn's freshman stars. When thrown into competition for a varsity job, the two-Adam Foster's youngest brother Henry, and Joe Clark--Immediately proceeded to beat all of Barnaby's Veterans. In less than two weeks of fall practice, Foster and Clark were the new one and two men, and Barnaby's biggest worries were solved...
Retailers' worries were the customers' delights. In Cleveland, a $25 Thanksgiving dinner for eight was thrown in with every refrigerator bought from Sears, Roebuck & Co. In Chicago, washing machines were offered at $50 below list price. Manhattan stores trimmed prices of women's dresses, furs, shoes, gloves, millinery, hosiery from 25% to 50%. Even the carriage trade's Hattie Carnegie, who ordinarily does not stress prices, advertised a clearance sale of hats...