Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's blizzard of '47 (TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...
...snap meant pepped-up picture stories, quiz pages, for-men-only articles, and reprints of short stories, but no ads-at least, in the February issue. Ingersoll had thrown out the cheap-looking ads that had cluttered up Salute's pages, so that he could court more imposing accounts...
...Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken high-tension wires...
Marine Fireworks. Candidate Douglas has none too happy a reputation with party workers. As a rebellious and reform bent city alderman, he had thrown many a prewar monkey wrench into the Kelly-Nash machine. He had been badly beaten in the 1942 senatorial primary. Then (while his wife, Emily Taft Douglas, guarded the family political fortunes by serving a term in Congress), he had gone off to fight as a private in the Marines. Twice wounded, he came home a hero and a lieutenant colonel...
Intermural. In Washington, the Veterans of Foreign Wars called for housing reform when they learned that the eight-year-old son of Veteran William Alfred Griffin had thrown a baseball right through the wall of one Government-sponsored house...