Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daylight through the mountain roads. For three days in a row the Experimenters began the day's travel at 2:30 a.m. and turned in at 8:30 or 9 p.m.. "It was one of the best experiences I had--though not the happiest," Lorenz said. "We were thrown in conditions just as the Yugoslavs live...
...Riviera remains to be rented out, but the problem isn't insurmountable. Prospective tenants include Italy, who would make good use of the southern coast. Monaco might well be thrown in as a bargain, Princess Grace could then call herself an Italian movie star--in spirit if not in body...
...reported, Tanganyika's lion-men were relatively passive until late last year when a nve-year-old girl was dragged into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman...
...immune to real terror over the last decade to be frightened by what they called "firecrackers," the lively Saigonese were suddenly thrown into a genuine panic as a result of their own celebrations. As thousands flocked to the trade fair marking their young republic's second birthday, a bottleneck developed at the two narrow bridges leading to the fair grounds. A stampede resulted; one of the bridges collapsed. Some 49 celebrators, including 36 women and children, were killed...
...closed down tight. But instead of demonstrating in the streets or sabotaging still-operating plants, the workers good-naturedly sipped maté in the spring sunshine or played sand-lot soccer. As the strike dragged on, soldiers took over buses, and society women, made change in subway booths. Tacks thrown into streets halted 90 buses and a fire engine on its way to answer a fire alarm; a Molotov cocktail was tossed against a bus. But at strike's end most workers went quietly back to work...