Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal never had but two things worth-while," cracked Pat Hurley, his hat in his hand, all ready to toss into the ring. "One of them was NRA. The other was Hugh Johnson and he's from Oklahoma...
...country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
...houses, has not changed Porkies' habits: they still have dinner every evening at the club. There they solemnly observe certain traditions. One of these is a crew song. At a certain point, as they sing "I float like a feather," members whip handkerchiefs out of their pockets and toss them into the air to float...
...hard to spread their evil and false propaganda through our schools and through our school text books (see Liberty Magazine December 30, 1939)." Probably he meant it. But even if all this is true, there are better ways of telling it to the people. It wasn't necessary to toss a wrench into the machinery of law-giving and justice-giving...
Having furnished a battleground in which Jews could toss grenades at each other, the Christian Century last week dropped an editorial bomb of its own. On the touchiest subject in Christian-Jewish relations it said...