Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing the river: lights all on in Chungking...
...official red silk cape thrown over an overcoat, Prosecutor Ho Chung-pan of the Hopehi High Court sat behind a small wooden table upon which was placed a writing set and paper. Yoshiko stood at attention four feet from him. "Your appeal has been rejected," Ho piped shrilly. "I am here to see that .the order of your execution is carried out immediately. Have you any last wishes...
...U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his watch was stolen...
...Palm Beach, Fla., the Duke of Windsor also toyed with a new pursuit. It was too early yet to guess at his future. He pitched the first ball in the annual Society Softball Game-and it turned out he had never thrown one before. After a little instruction he managed to get it clear to the plate...
...here too, suddenly, "like an exotic quilt thrown over a slept-in bed," summer covers the cemetery of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros with plaids of buttercups, poppies and bluebells. Millions of birds and clouds of mosquitoes take to the air; and the warmed glaciers, calving with "that large utterance of the early Gods," emit the drifting icebergs which plague the waters of the North Atlantic...