Word: throws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentleman "despite those clothes." He was not very tall, but his eyes were blue. Unhappily, he was married. Still, Mary and Sinclair developed an intellectual sort of friendship, and in his circle she began to meet Fascinating People. There was Anarchist Emma Goldman, who was apt to throw vases (filled) at her lover. There was Sinclair Lewis, who sort of absentmindedly squeezed Mary's knee under a Greenwich Village tablecloth. There was a young poet called George Sterling-given to flowing tie and knickerbockers, a great sonneteer after the first 14 lines-who once knocked on Mary...
...hospital. "He wasn't certain," Smith said, "but it seems pretty clear to me that some action will have to be taken against those men." He refused to tell the News the names to the suspected players, but said that he "won't hesitate to throw the book at them. Anyone who would commit such an outrage certainly deserves the harshest treatment," he explained...
Nikita was grateful then. But from that moment on, Nikita Khrushchev must have known Zhukov had to be destroyed. For if Zhukov could throw his tanks behind Khrushchev, he could also, at some future date, throw them against Khrushchev...
After such a publication, the game was an anti-climax. Princeton once more defeated Harvard and sent three of its best players to the hospital. The Crimson fans, egged on by the issue, did their best to throw bottles and generate a "glorious free-for-all" but in general it was an average football game...
Wolfe wrote hime in 1921 that a commercial producer had approached him to write a play. "Well, I will take one more chance and give him what he wants, in spite of the fact that Professor Baker will throw up his hands and say that I have 'prostituted my art' and so on, when...