Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because they felt secure in that belief. But the House's impressive vote also strengthened Taft, who now might be able to restore much of his bill. But whatever happened-a compromise between the two houses, a possible presidential veto even of the compromise -the House action had thrown down a challenge to the industrial...
...soft-coal dispute, frozen by John Lewis' gruesome "memorial" strike, melted this week like an April thaw. Lewis' miners, losing millions of dollars in wages and gaining not a thing, had been drifting back. Secretary of the Interior Julius ("Cap") Krug had thrown responsibility for mine safety right back at Lewis himself. Then Lewis' old nemesis, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, melted the last block...
...acid was thrown. Communists dashed through the streets of Rangoon in a green jeep, shouting: "Rebellion, rebellion! Rise, rise!" A couple of polling booths outside the city were burned. The only bloodshed in Rangoon occurred when a constable accidentally discharged a shotgun into his foot...
...squad returns to Soldiers Field today for a 4 o'clock joust with the University of Connecticut, and will meet a traditionally powerful Holy Cross nine at Fitton Field, Worcester, at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Righthander Jack Wallace will start against the U-Conns, and Red Connolly will be thrown against his former colleagues at Worcester tomorrow...
...then mistaken or makeshift, the U.S. Vichy policy on the whole was shrewd, sensible, unsentimental, says Langer. "Possibly if we had treated De Gaulle differently, if we had thrown ourselves behind his movement, the man himself might have become less rambunctious. . . . But this is all purely speculative. . . . In the popular mind it all reduced itself to the choice between the authoritarian regime of Vichy and the heroic crusade of De Gaulle. But unless one can demonstrate that De Gaulle and his movement could have contributed more effectively to American interests . . . the whole argument against our policy falls flat...