Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Almazan was reported to be somewhere near by, either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...
...three-quarters of an hour Franklin Roosevelt stood on the stage of Constitution Hall with arms outstretched and hands grasping the speaker's stand, his only gesture an occasional toss of his big, grey head. From the hushed hall every now & then broke a deep, spontaneous roar of approval...
...find a way to give the kids a break? Take them out of durance vile and put them both to work at the airport. They'd eat it up and love it! Can we afford to toss these human chips to the four winds when the day may come when they will be needed to rekindle the everlasting American flame in the breasts of a thousand and one more kids...
...Trammell was a boy down in Marietta, Georgia, he was known formally as Leander Niles, informally as Pud. A member of a Mark Twainish clan of moppets called the "Dirty Dozen," Pud was a bit on the model side until the boys persuaded him to smoke a few cigarets, toss off a couple of noggins of beer. At 18, he was sent to Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles G. Morton...
...votes in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, although these States had selected more than one Republican delegation, faced seating contests at the convention. Many a Republican State boss still sat mum on the sidelines, planned to use his quota of votes to make an effective deal at the convention, or toss them on to the band wagon as it rolled...