Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federation may have 2,000,000 members-as many as, or more than, the Communist remnant of the C.G.T. proper, which once (early in 1947) boasted 6,000,000 members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...
...veillon. One by one, she cooked the traditional dishes. There was bouillon to thaw the family out when they returned from Mass (the big beef bone was already in the pot). There were tourtières (spicy pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor of spice...
...Chief staple: poi, a fermented paste made from taro root. "And an unseductive mixture it is," wrote Mark Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...
Various pieces of experiment drama, William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and "Troilus and Cressida," as well as Shaw's "Major Barbara" were attacked, defended and finally thrown out in favor of an experimental interpretation of "Hamlet...
Many times since its rebirth last spring, the Advocate has helplessly thrown up its arms and sunk into the quicksands of adolescent as well as painfully esoteric writing, but now it seems to have arrived safely on firm, green ground. The current issue combines the magazine's previous virtues with a new one, short stories that are worth the type they use. Now the consistently fine poetry, drawings, and makeup all yield the spotlight to the place where it belongs-on the fiction...