Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though there are over 500 able individuals enrolled in the two leagues, there is actually only a handful for whom the grand army of snobbish rooters has eyes, for whom hats are thrown, bottles broken, hosannas raised...
...second roadblock was thrown up during the maneuvering over Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright's Community Facilities Bill to provide long-term (50 years) public-works loans to small cities with low credit ratings. Fortnight ago, Republicans on Fulbright's Banking and Currency Committee (joined by Democrats Paul Douglas of Illinois, Allen Frear Jr. of Delaware and Willis Robertson of Virginia) trimmed the bill's total from $2 billion to $1 billion, upped the proposed interest rate from...
Cause of this stormy marathon was, as usual, France's most divisive topic: Algeria. When a French Premier wants to take a necessary but unpopular step, he usually waits until the French Assembly is in recess so that he cannot be thrown out of office immediately. But the right-wingers in his Cabinet, who oppose any concessions in Algeria, were committed to quit in a body if Gaillard misstepped, and thus even in parliamentary recess his hands were tied...
...complaint alleging student vandalism has been registered with the University by residents of the Sherman Apartments behind Greenough Hall, it was learned yesterday. The superintendent of the building asserted that an egg was thrown through the window of an apartment directly across a 40-foot mall from the fourth floor of Greenough...
...youthful Van Dyck also left the canvas with some unresolved problems. The yellow robe of Judas, as he turns to betray Jesus, billows stiffly, forming a disconcerting, nostril-like free form; Peter's violent attack against Malchus (one of the high priest's servants) is nearly thrown off the picture at lower left...