Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amherst chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, one of 12 nationally-affiliated fraternities at that college, pledged a Negro student. The group's national council threatened suspension of the local if they took in the boy. The chapter stuck to its guns, initiated the student last week, and was thrown out by the national council on Monday...
...widely-publicized Hyde block on Moille's touchdown run, well it wasn't true. The only spectacular one that this observer noted was thrown by Will Davis, who personally disposed of four defenders in the course of the play. This Davis, by the way, turned in as fine an afternoon of football as anybody...
...Guard thought they now had a mandate. Only in 1946, they said, had the issue been clearly drawn against the New Deal, and in 1946 the Republicans had won. Some talked of reviving their congressional coalition with conservative Southern Democrats-a set of obstructionists whom Harry Truman had just thrown overboard as so much excess ballast. Speaker Joe Martin hustled down to Mobile, told the Alabama Chamber of Commerce: "It was the South which helped to hold the line for American enterprise through the trying years of the prewar experiment in Washington...
...Kissing Bandit (MGM) pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama. The picture itself is only a costume piece, with a little vaudeville thrown in. Its best features are the broad comedy by J. Carroll Naish, the sentimental songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, and some lively Spanish dances...
Calirl returned at 1 a.m. and found every bureau drawer thrown open and the room disarranged. "I didn't think much of it." he said yesterday, explaining that he believed one of his room-mates had been searching for something...