Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told fortunes in a Manhattan brownstone. Mrs. Bunce's routine was to open a Bible and poke a needle into it for an omen. One year, probing for Tallulah's future, the needle stuck on the name Jezebel. "Oh, that's terrible," said Estelle. "Jezebel was thrown to the dogs." "Yes," throbbed Tallulah, "but first she rode with kings and princes...
Harvard's new head coach arrived in Cambridge last spring to be greeted by 50 demoralized football players, a group of sports analysts who honestly wondered if he was a lamb being thrown to the wolves, and an undergraduate body which cared less about football than in any school he had ever seen...
...than our present administration is likely to do, the emergence to power of de Gaulle in France and of similar political forces in other countries. The Truman administration may, with some justice, be characterized as a Liberal-Labor Government. As such its influence in western Europe will probably be thrown in directions favored by the Labor and Liberal Governments of Britain and the Scandinavian countries. This will, I think, greatly facilitate necessary cooperation among the countries of western Europe in an integrated recovery program...
Last year the $7 charity drive flopped and the University was thrown open to all private solicitors. In past years, no outside organizations have been allowed to make Fund requests...
Torches, placards, and a beauty queen were thrown in as G.O.P. boosters indulged in a final burst of enthusiasm befor the polls open today...