Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington and London both expected a British announcement this week on Palestine immigration. As soon as possible thereafter, Britain will almost certainly toss the entire explosive issue at the already overburdened United Nations Organization...
Revelation & Elongation. It all added up to one of the knottiest labor problems in history. Shifts had to be arranged according to the workers' respective religions, or else pious fanatics would toss aside their tools and start tearing out heretics' hair. Production once dropped to zero for a whole month while workers celebrated "the first revelation of the Koran to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel...
...house cleaning certain to come early in the occupation will scarcely enhance the Emperor's "divinity." Under the Potsdam declaration, which includes the purging of militarism from Japan, MacArthur has the right to toss out any member of the Emperor's new gov ernment (see FOREIGN NEWS), and many of them will have...
...Doris Duke: Frederic Putnam White, 25, Boston socialite, now a Navy boatswain's mate; after four years of marriage (two children); in West Palm Beach, Fla. To get her uncontested divorce, Dodge Auto Heiress White gave her mother-in-law custody of the two children, agreed to toss in a couple of $1,000,000 trust funds for them...
Lieut. General William Hood Simpson, immaculate, billiard-bald Ninth Army commander, was the most rumpled guest at a victory-celebration banquet in Germany: Soviet officers honored him with a triple toss ceilingward, the stouthearted Russian version of "three cheers...