Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declaration was probably thrown together in a hurry, Fairman said. The government at the last moment realized that the President would have to take almost complete control after the utter devastation of a bombing, he believed...
Your Jan. 23 story errs in stating that "the Blue Jay Parents' Club passed a resolution denouncing any such move" [towards desegregation]. The resolution was proposed at the club meeting, but it was thrown out by our principal, Father Stallworth, as against the constitution of the club. The whole issue at stake at this time was whether the Jesuits would continue to decide the policies at Jesuit High School or would surrender this right to the parents. The vast majority of the parents have approved our stand...
...cruising police car has, he added, sought out cars of violators and notified the garage by radio of their location. Some students, objecting to the crackdown have thrown firecrackers and water at the policemen, he claimed. The garageman said he expected more towing, late last night, at about two or three in the morning...
...cute, kissable age, nobody paid any attention to him. The charming prodigy turned into a "pale, silent, colorless young man." Briefly under the patronage of Salzburg's archbishop, he ate with the servants; when he protested that he was not allowed to perform his music, he was thrown out bodily. His great love, Singer Aloysia Weber, preferred to marry a nonentity. "I did not know, you see," poor Aloysia would later mumble in her old age. "I only thought he was such a little...
...them from becoming quite wild. At parties for T.S. Eliot, of course, decorum has always prevailed, the atmosphere being more sentimental than sensual. But there was an entirely different air about the Elizabeth Taylor party. And the Dylan Thomas party was notable for the number of people who were thrown downstairs...