Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their narrow escapes were uncanny. Lewis tumbled from a 300-ft. cliff and caught himself 20 feet from the top. A private was thrown from his horse almost atop a grizzly, hit it over the head with his rifle butt and escaped. Their escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded...
...They packed their defenses nicely," Howie Odell, the Yale coach commented Saturday, "with that eight-man line variation." He thought his team had reacted satisfactorily, however, adding that "we should have thrown more long ones...
Planemaker Howard Hughes had taken all that the Senate War Investigating subcommittee had thrown at him, and had given as good as he got. Last week the committee heard from Lieut. General Barney Giles, wartime A.A.F. Chief of Staff, who backed up Hughes...
...obligingly effaced themselves when the bride turned up there for a reception. Despite royal permission that business suits be worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear in all their full-dress glory: scarlet and blue uniforms with pipe-clayed breeches and flashing cuirasses...
Innovator. In Elizabeth, N.J., police charged imaginative John Pudlack with disorderly conduct after Helen Ciuba complained that he had thrown a doghouse at her while the dog was occupying...