Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted, the public has been thrown into its annual dither by the 1958 automotive barges. This reaction seems particularly inappropriate in view of our current technical and political lag behind the chromeless Russians. It is high time to reappraise ourselves in the light of the world around us, with a little less emphasis on bubble windshields and fins...
When ships go down, the cry goes up: "Women and children first!" Now two reputable psychiatrists have decided that the age-old rule of the sea, aimed at helping those least able to help themselves, should be thrown overboard...
...ranks of American scientists into invincible battalions. We must again be able to beat the enemy to the draw as we did in developing the atomic bomb. Our schools of science and engineering, if they are strong, are a powerful fleet-in-being, a striking force that can be thrown instantly into action if needed...
...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
That night police grilled the cowering, neurotic youth, Moshe ben Yaacov Dueg, who had thrown the bomb. "Why did you do it?" they asked. "Because," he answered in sullen, resentful tones, "the Jewish Agency robbed me." He was a worrying, ailing, ne'er-do-well full of fancied grievances against all officialdom; his grudge was a private one, unconnected with the seething political turmoil of the Middle East. "I know," Ben-Gurion wrote his parents, "that you regret, as does all Israel, the dastardly and foolish crime your son perpetrated. But you are not to blame. You are living...