Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelmen pinned their hopes mainly on Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, whose special Senate subcommittee was just beginning to pry into the entire hubbub. Capehart said that the Supreme Court's decision in the cement case had thrown all of industry into confusion on prices. He thought the "only pricing practice which may be followed in any competitive industry where freight is a substantial item . . . with assurance of legality is an f.o.b. mill price. Any other pricing system may be found illegal...
...life of the Plebe, for instance, has been famed in song and story as the epitome of refined torture. He must serve as the butt of every upperclassman's ill-temper, quirks of humor, or plain cussedness, and he must take everything that is thrown at him without a murmur, for he is lower than the lowest galley-slave in the eyes of his more advanced brothers-in-arms. And these latter companions, having been Plebes once themselves, are not apt to let him forget how low this...
...piece begins with a wolf call, and ends with all the instruments thrown into a corner. It is scored for ukulele, kazoo, hogan-twanger (wooden box and hacksaw blades), cardboard box, seal barks and an Indian elephant bell. It has words like this...
Before the war, Irwin Shaw won easy fame and money by turning out smooth and clever plays and stories-for many tastes, rather too smooth and clever. Now, with his war experience to draw upon, Shaw has thrown all his energy and talent into an ambitious novel. As one of the Broadway characters of a Shaw story might say, this is his "big pitch." The sad news is that he has failed; his novel is depressing evidence of how hard it is for a writer to slough off youthful habits...
Three major proposals were originally sifted out of this group. One year ago the Committee tentatively approved a plan for $500,000 plaque. Yesterday, the group said it had thrown out the scholarships because "the income today from $500,000 would be inadequate to be dignified by the term 'War Memorial...