Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported total of 139 eggs, tomatoes and other missiles were thrown during the presidential campaign (not including the final week). Of these, 84 eggs, 40 tomatoes, 4 peaches, 2 lemons, 1 orange, and 1 bun were aimed at Henry Wallace. He was hit by 5 eggs and 4 tomatoes. Two eggs splashed on his plane, 2 on his auto, 2 on his train and 1 struck the manuscript he was reading. One egg and 5 tomatoes were thrown at Governor Thomas E. Dewey. No hits. One pop bottle was thrown at President Harry Truman during his parade in Indianapolis...
...side of the podium, his head raised, his arms outstretched to the cheers, his face smiling. It is quite true that he smiles very badly. The trouble is he can't smile slowly--one instant his face is serious and then very suddenly, as if a switch has been thrown, he is grinning rigidly and coldly...
...overwhelming Dewey victory marked a sharp turn-about from previous Annex political leanings. In 1944, 1940, and 1936, Radcliffe students had thrown their support to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...high plans for this cream of the educational crop. But at the same time "the weight of the school should be thrown heavily against all forms of snobbery," and in favor of the equal dignity of protozoologists, shoe salesmen and senators. Only then will "a boy or girl [choose] a career . . . because of a real interest, not in order to climb into a better economic or social group...
...Oakland, where he managed "nine old men" into winning the Pacific Coast League championship this year, he had two cases of beer sent to the clubhouse after every game the team won. A graduate of the roughhouse school of baseball, he still gets thrown out of ball games for baiting umpires...