Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hatches & Horrors. Twice the President had to duck objects hurled at him. One time a dagger was thrown; it was made of rubber. Another time, during a parade, a well-wrapped ham sandwich dropped into his lap from an apartment house in The Bronx...
...Refugees from Lyallpur in West Punjab say that so many Sikhs and Hindus were murdered and their bodies thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after. Moslem refugees told how Sikhs stripped and paraded Moslem women through the streets, raped them and then killed them. British correspondents reported having seen dead, naked women lying about villages of the Amritsar district...
Fair Game. In Los Angeles, long-suffering Selah Forsythe charged John Forsythe with wife-beating, got her case thrown out of court when the judge discovered that she and John were not legally married...
...doors of the study were thrown open and several of the King's bodyguards rushed in with guns in their hands...
...them to a part of Nebraska where the lines representing the earth's magnetism happen to cross the parallels of latitude at the same angle as at State College. When he released the pigeons to the east of this "false home," they headed away from their Pennsylvania home. Thrown off their course by their navigating instruments, the pigeons all flew west. Professor Yeagley believes his experiment proves that pigeons are guided by both the earth's magnetism and by its turning...