Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already known as Lippy, young Leo Durocher insolently replied: "Yeah? Listen, you big slob, I've got a brain. All you got is a strong back. We'll see who stays in the big leagues the longest." Durocher was thrown off the gentlemanly Yankees, bounced in Cincinnati, and came down to earth in St. Louis with the famed Gashouse Gang (Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean and Frankie Frisch...
...year the city of Ames had a local campaign of its own, headed by Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College. Ames sprayed and scrubbed itself into almost utter flylessness. In the stores, the hanging ribbons of flypaper, usually black with entangled prey, remained naked all summer, or were thrown away...
...Department of Justice, scared by the political furor over portal pay, asked that the claims be thrown out, on the grounds that they were trifling. (The Supreme Court had advised that all "trifling" amounts be ignored.) The Detroit court agreed. So three weeks ago Lawyer Lamb appealed, starting the case up to the Supreme Court again. The Department of Justice, hoping that the Court would reverse itself and kill portal pay for good, obligingly asked for a quick hearing...
...Court last week. It knocked out his hope of getting control of the Pullman sleeping-car business. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had bid for it when anti-trust action forced Pullman, Inc. to put the business up for sale. But Young's bid had been thrown out in favor of one made by a pool of 43 other railroads. Young had cried "monopoly." So had the Department of Justice, which put the matter up to the Supreme Court. But the Court approved the sale to the pool (for $75 million...
...picture is set in Paris a hundred years ago. A number of strangers in a fiesta crowd are thrown together by fate. Years later, all changed by love and frustration, they are again lost to each other in the crowd. That is the end. Centering around one of the most fascinating theaters ever seen on the screen, the story runs all the way from light-hearted love-making to a Pagliacchio-like tragedy that is dramatic without being farcical...