Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Arevalo boasted, "Democracy has triumphed," then took some undemocratic measures. All newspapers and radio stations were closed; opposition leaders were thrown in jail. The army launched a purge of pro-Arana officers...
...Gold Cup ("world's richest race") was run, it was a sweltering 96° as the field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...
...shoved into a small room with a half-wrecked stove and a barred window without panes . . . The temperature [was] below freezing . . . Occasionally a bit of bread was thrown in to me . . . Every [few] days . . . NKVD men would burst in at night and carry out a most careful examination of the cell and of my person [including] the long beard which had grown during my imprisonment and which was stiff from pus that had run into it from my frostbitten face. I was kicked and beaten on these occasions...
...trailing the Yankees 3-2 in the ninth, got a hit with the bases loaded and failed to score a run. Base-runner John Pesky began a dash for the plate, decided to go back and tag-up at third in case the ball was caught, fell down, got thrown out at the plate. Next day, by way of saving McCarthy's sanity, the Sox launched a seven-game winning streak...
Hypothetical Cinch. On the other hand, Casey Stengel, 57, for years baseball's No. 1 buffoon, had stopped clowning. He had not been thrown out of a game all season. When his star, Joe DiMaggio, was counted out with a sore heel before the season opened, Casey camouflaged his fears. A knowing wink was all anybody got out of him though Casey knew least of anybody what he was winking about...