Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spend on air fare alone. After paying annual $3 dues, a club member can, for instance, go and spend two weeks on the Greek island of Corfu for $210, which is $70 less than the regular round-trip tourist air fare from Paris (an off-season third week is thrown in free). Two weeks at the Djerba, Tunisia, village costs $200. Three weeks in Tahiti costs $1,120-or $660 less than the economy air fare from Paris. Group charter travel, a huge turnover and the unfancy villages make profits at these prices...
...witness reported that Hunkeler was heading toward Lars Anderson Bridge in the right lane of Memorial drive when a car in the left lane swerved, forcing the motorcycle against the curb. Hunkeler and his passenger, Enic Fallick, were both thrown about fifty feet and landed on the sidewalk in front of the Winthrop House courtyard...
...night, Thrown together in a sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly in an empty bunk. The train reaches Paris. Someone strangles the flirt after the other passengers have left...
...Instead of appreciating the correctness of the struggle against the Hitlerites," Ceausescu said bitterly, "the Comintern criticized the Rumanian Communists for their activity against German aggression . . . Rumania, abandoned by all European powers, was actually thrown into the arms of the Hitlerite forces. Resistance to the fascist dictatorship included broad circles among the bourgeois parties and the royal palace...
...been thrown outta better places than this," Toscano claimed from his curbside seat...