Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sloppy base running and a failure to hit with men on base plagued the Crimson all day. Two men were thrown out on the bases, two at the plate, and ten others were left stranded, as the nine-hit attack produced only single runs in the first and fifth innings...
...rebel combat commanders thrown up by Algeria's 4½-year-old civil war, none was more dreaded by French and Moslems alike than Amirouche Aït Hamouda, a peddler's son from the mountainous Berber stronghold of Kabylia. Barely into his 20s when he joined the underground, sinewy, long-legged Amirouche rose swiftly to the F.L.N.'s highest field rank, full "colonel," commanded a battle-hardened force of 5,000 men that made Kabylia the country's strongest bastion of rebel power...
...economic plan must be approved by the nation's pseudo-parliament. To acquire the additional activists desperately needed to tighten up government control over the communes, the Chinese Communist Party has recruited an estimated 1,000,000 new members in the last five months. Mao has also thrown into the communes army units of up to division strength to lend a hand with plowing, irrigation projects, training of technicians, and "education" (i.e., disciplining the dissatisfied...
...unfortunate that so many talented performers, as well as some nice sets and costumes, should be thrown away on a show of this calibre. About twice as much preparation, as well as a re-staging, might have turned it into a success, but it would have been an uphill campaign...
Hoffmann would like to see multiple-choice tests rigorously rewritten or, better still, thrown out of the schools altogether. "Even if the tests were free from all ambiguities and errors," they would still have "serious defects when applied to those people who, despite impressive gifts, do not shine at parlor games...