Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elkton, Md.; Essex Specialty Co. of Berkley Heights, NJ.-are operating shell-loading plants. Others are turning out: huge parachute flares for the Air Forces; signal lights, both flare and smoke for the Navy and Merchant Marine ; incendiary bombs for Chemical Warfare; huge cannon crackers for the infantry to toss over the heads of soldiers in maneuvers, condition them for gunfire...
While Mussolini stalled, Franklin Roosevelt, no amateur at political warfare, had his say. Roosevelt had blistered Mussolini three years ago: "The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor." Now he invited the Italian people to toss out the betrayer, the Fascist Party, and the Germans. In return, the President promised that Allied victory will mean that Italians can have a non-Fascist government of their own choosing and will be restored to real nationhood as respected (the President emphasized the word respected) members of the European family...
...reputation as "the best goddam no-trump player in the world," 3) to blocking traffic in such cities of narrow streets as Acapulco by strolling down them in an enormous Mexican sombrero and multicolored fringed scrape, followed by from 20 to 30 small boys, to whom he would occasionally toss a handful of centavos. The four months totally cured his acute case of Washingtonitis...
...posing as a dummy in a display. Hope sits on a bicycle and looks scared while the enemy agents quarrel over their prowess of knife throwing. Hope, of course, becomes the object of their skill, but the bicycle comes in handy when he is discovered, for even Hope can toss it at his tormentors...
...absence of President Roosevelt, who is on another war inspection tour, McNutt was called upon to toss out the traditional first ball that sent the season...