Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...washed the first concert indoors-not before King and Cabinet Ministers were consulted on the crisis. The switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor. (He finally made it by hitching a ride on a truck.) King Paul, Queen Frederika and their two oldest children applauded the maestro's interpretation of Schumann's dramatic Second Symphony, and Mitropoulos joined them for a chat at the theater bar, where...
...Dodgers through eight tight innings. Furillo and Snider reached him for homers; Jackie Robinson stole home-like a Mack truck. Still the Yanks stayed in front. They knocked out Big Don Newcombe before he finished six innings. Trying too hard to be the team sparkplug, Billy Martin was thrown out stealing home, but he saved the game with his fielding. First Baseman Joe Collins more than made up for the absence of injured Mickey Mantle by belting two home runs. Score: Yankees 6, Dodgers...
...Eastern affairs. Lattimore was placed on leave of absence (with pay) in December 1952, when he was indicted on charges that he lied to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee by denying before the committee that he had ever been a Communist "sympathizer."' After the charges were twice thrown out of federal court on technicalities, the Government dropped them...
Adenauer was not quite finished. He also, he said, had had a bad time under the Nazis. He had even been thrown in jail, where he had had time to worry not only about what the Germans were doing, but also about those foreign nations who were supporting Hitler: a sharp reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...
...When mankind got electricity and steam," says Steiger, "factories sprang up, and residential sections were thrown around them without planning. That's what we must avoid in the atomic age. The architect should be Number...