Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genial Mr. McNutt: "You don't know whether the quarterback wants you to carry the ball or to run interference. Sometimes the whole team wants to call the signals. .. . My office [Federal Security Administrator] is only an epithet away from the Interior Department and a stone's throw from the Post Office Department...
...great majority of us are snowed under by an avalanche of medical journals. Too many doctors choke their offices with unopened magazines 'useful to throw at the cat,' and the only way a busy physician can keep up with his field is to clip and catalogue practical articles. Facts may be said to be buried rather than recorded...
...yelled McDermott, who is wonderfully kind to cub reporters but a bull dog to rowdy ones, "cut that out, or we'll throw you out." "I'll ask the boss about that," said Wilson in a mock huff, and walked down the hall to the office of the then Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (who had just been notified of his appointment as Minister to China). Two hours later someone put his head in the Assistant Secretary's door. Nelson Johnson and Lyle Wilson were tossing the airplane at each other, laughing like ten-year...
...Arise, long-suffering, toiling people of Finland! Arise to the courageous fight against the tyranny of your oppressors and hangmen! Arise, all citizens to whom the future of our country is dear! Let us throw down the black pack of reaction from the shoulders of our people! Let us clear the road for the progress, welfare and culture of the people, for the realization of the age-old national aspirations of our people. Let triumph the cause of the workers, peasants and working intelligentsia of Finland...
...Browder emerged from the hall, he was surrounded by cheering and booing students. Enthusiasts began to throw vegetables at his car, and there was an abortive attempt to turn the car over, but cries of "Cut it out!" from cooler heads soon stopped the monkeyshines...