Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...site of the museum which the American School hopes to build, the diggers found a treasure which looked like a page from a history book. Thrown away and buried deep were several hundred ostraka-bits of broken pottery on which Athenian voters once wrote the names of public men they wished to elect or to exile. Among the names on exile ballots were three which still echo in history: Themistocles, Hippocrates, and Aristides...
More than 3,000 cases before the National Labor Relations Board will be thrown out unless the unions involved register and file non-Communist affidavits within 20 days, the NLRB general counsel announced last night in Washington...
...Springs, N.Y., Cinemactor Don Ameche, Hollywood's No. 1 impersonator of great inventors, posed for his picture in a nightclub, thus irritated a neighboring drunk, presently found himself deep in an exchange of unpleasantries. Ameche wound up and threw a punch, four pretty models screamed, the drunk was thrown out. Ameche's punch had missed, but the season was under...
...Curate of St. Matthews' Cathedral, has rescued hundreds of teen-agers like Benny from crime and the police. He has won the respect of gangsters, delinquents, tycoons and teachers. But Father Swartsfager himself has not always been so singleminded. The son of an artificial limb manufacturer, he was thrown out of three schools and two universities (Temple and the University of Pennsylvania) for "recalcitrance." He had no idea what he wanted to do ("All I knew was that I didn't want to be an artificial limb manufacturer"). He became a sportwriter, later switched to advertising ("Seeing...
Mozart's librettist, Giambattista Varesco, brewed a confusing plot based on the Odyssey, with such extraneous characters as Electra thrown in. Idomeneo, King of Crete, is buffeted by storms on his return from the siege of Troy. To appease Poseidon, he swears to sacrifice the first person he encounters on landing. That turns out to be his son Idamante, who is in love with Ilia, daughter of the vanquished King of Troy. The gods finally clear up the whole matter, and the opera ends four hours later with Idamante and Ilia on the throne. Even the charm of Mozart...