Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more destructive than the water itself was the force with which it hit the city and the gigantic whirlpools that it created at the intersections of streets and in the city squares. The giant waves hurled parked cars against the buildings while wooden furniture and other floating objects were thrown, like projectiles, into everything in the path of the water...
...pleased, but almost everyone was appeased. The idealists -- who argued that to talk of reforms after discrediting the premises of the draft system diluted the impact of the denunciation -- were thrown a sop. The final resolution declared that the conference was primarily against an involuntary system...
Several scenes in Georgy Girl have no point at all, but seem thrown in to keep up the banal gaiety and give the scriptwriters a chance to show off their whimsey. For no reason that can be fathomed from the plot, Georgy does a torrid parody of a vamp, swinging down a staircase and singing Mae West style. Equally irrelevant is a remark her father makes in another scene; he doesn't "know to what this world is coming...
...wind outside a faculty member's window). Her dreams of glory as a star basketball center were dashed when, after one look at her height, Smith decided that she had an unfair advantage over her college mates, changed the intramural rules so that the ball was thrown in from the side. With vague hopes of becoming a novelist and a ¶average, she graduated...
...Hell, Guy Lombardo might just as well be hailing a cab on the bandstand. None of the musicians look at him." The compulsion to say what he thinks has led the stick-thin drummer (5 ft. 8 in., 125 Ibs.) into a lot of free-swinging battles. He has thrown punches at his sergeant in the Marine Corps, where he had been a judo instructor, and at Frank Sinatra, who is now one of his closest friends. Today, his heart condition keeps him limited to an occasional "one-or-two-punch thing in the parking...