Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With so much at stake and so redoubtable a personality as Allen's thrown against him, Sullivan reacted with an astute application of high strategy. By announcing that 43 Hollywood stars would appear on his show, he made good use of the well-established principle that the more Hollywood stars promised on a TV show, the more viewers the show will draw. He made even better use of the principle's incontrovertible corollary−viz., the quality of a TV show varies inversely with the number of Hollywood stars on it and the time they stay around. Sullivan...
...Comfortable Lead. It was the usual Sullivan variety show with everything thrown in from bears riding bicycles to Harry Belafonte singing spirituals and with something to appeal to every member of the family. Against this onslaught Steve Allen was forced to do a little of the same kind of thing. Allen offered some big names of his own "to get the customers to walk into the store." Sammy Davis Jr. sang too long and too loud, and Kim Novak fluffed her way through a skit that strained too hard for its laughs. The best part of the Steve Allen show...
...days before the election, Prado announced that "one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties." In Peru the only significant proscribed party is APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), which was thrown out of power and outlawed in 1948 by the present President, Military Strongman Manuel...
...peat bog, was buried 8 ft. deep. It was naked except for a cap and belt, had a one-day stubble of beard on its face and was perfectly preserved. The plaited-leather hangman's noose around its neck indicated that the man had been strangled before being thrown into the bog. The peat cutters who found it hastened to call the police. But the police were unable to solve the mystery and did not really care. The body had been lying in the peat for some 2,000 years...
...stubborn Confederate conductor of the captured train pursued him so closely on foot, handcar, switching engine and reversed locomotive that there was never time to do a thorough job of sabotage. Captured only ten miles from Chattanooga, Andrews and seven of his men were hanged, and the rest thrown into prison. All of the raiders were awarded the first Congressional Medals of Honor in U.S. history...