Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This sort of thing happens frequently. In fact the board has completely thrown out all the jury's recommendations at times, and has chosen its own candidate," he added...
...best known boulevardier of his time, Social Chronicler Beebe held that the true test of spenders of distinction was not necessarily how they rid themselves of substantial sums of money but rather how closely they subscribed to the dictum of the late Gene Fowler: "Money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains." As an example of a freehanded spender with class, Beebe gives an account of Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner's paying Paderewski $3,000 to play at teatime for an elderly friend and herself on condition that he remain concealed behind...
...Perfect Conspirator." When the French were thrown out and President Ngo Dinh Diem took over in 1955, Tri Quang, in common with many of his brother monks, was hardly over joyed. For 80 years under the French, Catholicism had been nurtured at the expense of Buddhism, and a Catholic church occupied the choice site in every town. Catholic schools provided education that the Buddhists could not afford to match, and Catholic merchants and civil servants, thus equipped, inevitably prospered. To Tri Quang, the Catholic Diem was merely an extension of the worst ills of French rule. In the monk...
...grad student then asked the detectives to accompany him back to the Harvard Trust Company to search for the note which had been thrown in a wastebasket. The detectives reluctantly agreed. They entered the other bank and sought the wastebasket in question. The crushed note was there, and the detectives freed a grateful Dillaway...
...triple jump will be a disaster for the Crimson all spring unless Pardee, who did 46 feet as a sophomore, is thrown into the breach. Godwin Nwokoys and Mark Johnson, sophomores both, have never reached 44 feet. Njoku may also see action in this event...