Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the doors of Philadelphia's enormous, echoing Convention Hall were thrown open, the army of sweating and rumpled Republicans gradually attained a state of martial hypnosis, like Indians engaged in nights of war dancing. They thirsted for the raw firewater of campaign oratory. And on opening night, as the jammed hall blinked to the glare of flashlights, they got it by the bucketful...
...Next day fighting broke out again-this time in the National Assembly. But with fists only. While Communist deputies chanted "Assassin," Moch made his report. He charged that the battle at Bergougnan had been caused by 300 Communists among the strikers, and added that the bottle bombs had been thrown by "non-workers." "Liar!" shouted Marcel Cachin, dean of France's Communists. Replied Moch: "It is easy to say others lie when one does not have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell upon Communists...
...answer is yes. The screen is indeed adequate to Shakespeare at his greatest-and Director-Actor Olivier's Hamlet is the proof. With this admirable filming of one of the most difficult of plays, the whole of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry is thrown wide open to good moviemakers...
Obviously Mildred had not thrown away the big money she used to make singing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker, who is Mildred's brother) -back in the days when people used to sit up until after midnight listening to that still novel gadget, radio. She had done all right, too, with the band that she and husband Red Norvo (now divorced) had for years...
...policy, however, cannot, and must not, be permitted to seem too much to hope for. An overwhelming vote by the House Appropriations Committee should restore the European Recovery grant to its original amount. United action by the House and the Senate should then be secured with personal political considerations thrown aside...