Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kasenkina affair (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the U.S.S.R. has looked ridiculously like a man who has lit up an explosive cigar. But last week the Soviet Foreign Office shaped its singed eyebrows into a frown and did its indignant best to act as though some capitalist had thrown a bomb...
Commented the New York Herald Tribune, which has previously taken a skeptical view of the committee's work: "The committee has turned up a great deal more than a 'red herring' . . . has been unearthing important facts . . . has thrown valuable light upon the Communist problem...
...pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told me that he had kicked Ava Gardner [Mrs. Shaw No. 5] several times and that she had 'responded nobly.' " Kathleen's lot: "He knocked me down...
Bolted motionless on a test stand, the little monster is not impressive. It has no coolly symmetrical propeller, no phalanx of cylinderheads, none of the hard geometrical grace of the conventional aircraft engine. Yet the unprepossessing turbojet engine has thrown the air designers into ecstatic confusion: nobody yet knows how fast the jet will enable man to fly, but the old speed ceilings are off. In their less guarded moments, sober designers talk of speeds so high that aircraft will glow like meteors...
...range and load-carrying ability above Mach i is an extremely difficult problem. Such a plane must be several planes in one. It must take off and land at a practical speed and fly at first below Mach i. It must pass through the dangerous transonic band without being thrown out of control or damaged by buffeting. Then it must deal with the new air behavior and enormous drag encountered above Mach...