Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...searching B-17 plane spotted the crashed C-47, circled low. Then a wingtip brushed the mountain and the search plane crashed, too. Only survivor of a ten-man crew, Sergeant Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...
...lesser charges were thrown out, but the court would have no truck with the nature-over-science argument. Stiffly it found that radar was only "an additional aid to navigation." Littler's sword now pointed directly at him: "Guilty." He was removed from his command, reprimanded. Said a brother officer: "Johnny's had his chips...
Cried Duclos: "By these two plans all of you-small businessmen, small industrialists and tradespeople-will be thrown into the jaws of international big business. It is you, the little people, who are going to be bled white with-new taxes. . . . The bigger you are the less you pay. . . . But we, the Communist Party, will defend you and stand...
...Petrillo had already begun his war on canned music. Talking pictures had thrown 18,000 U.S. theater musicians out of work. Petrillo listened to radio broadcasts of recorded music as though he heard the rumble of doom. "Electric refrigerators put the iceman out of work," he screamed, "but the iceman didn't have to make them. The musician is being asked to destroy himself." In 1936, unabashed by the fact that he was simply the head of one local union, he announced that union musicians would no longer make records in Chicago. He also forced radio stations to hire...
...Rodzinski, who is always surprising people with ecstatic references to his art and to his God (he is an ardent Buchmanite) had bumped head-on into mammon again. In spite of his unpredictable ways, many Chicagoans rushed to his defense last week. Their feeling was that maybe Rodzinski had thrown a little money around, but he had built the orchestra again into a first-rate symphony, using the same old hands (only the piano player and the first horn were new). He had given Chicagoans the finest opera they had heard in years: a concert version of Elektra with Marjorie...