Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady climb. Puzzled, Pilot Beck adjusted trim tabs on the plane's control surfaces to bring the nose down. Then, still undetected, Sisto released the gust lock. The plane immediately went into an outside loop. Both Sisto and Beck, neither of whom had fastened his safety belt, were thrown from their seats. Two things saved the plane. Sisto struck buttons which feathered the prp-pellors of three engines. Copilot Melvin Logan, who was securely belted in, was able to roll the ship right side up, a bare 300 to 400 feet from the ground...
Friends rushed him to Bucharest, where he was thrown into jail and fished out again by "Cousin" Marie (the Queen of Rumania). A good many of his other cousins were driving taxis in those days, and Wilhelm became thoroughly disillusioned. When Ukrainian students in a Prague beer hall raised their glasses to him with the cry "Long Live Our Vasily," he only muttered: "The fools. . . ." By that time, the Ukraine was a Soviet Socialist Republic...
Violence flared throughout the country. In Toulouse, a Gaullist at a Communist meeting was thrown from a theater balcony into the orchestra and died. Comrade Maurice Thorez himself was involved in a bang-up brawl. At a Communist rally, he invited a foolhardy heckler, Socialist Jacques Karaimsky, to come on up and say his say on the platform. Karaimsky did: "Perhaps you have forgotten that . . . Moscow used to feed Germany with wheat and gasoline to kill Frenchmen. And why did Maurice Thorez desert in 1940?" Thorez flushed, then leaped at Karaimsky, and punched him. Some 1,700 other comrades tried...
...gets a man will have a pair of tickets to Simmon's first all-college formal thrown in with her prize. Any money collected will go to the current drive for funds to enlarge the college...
...Observe," said Ruskin, "that what this impressionable person does draw she draws as like as she can. . . . You can't every day, for instance, see a baby thrown into a basket of roses; but when she has once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you, baby is as like baby and rose as like rose as she can possibly draw them . . . they are blissful just in the degree that they are natural; the fairyland that she creates for you is not beyond the sky nor beneath the sea, but near you, even at your doors...