Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impresario Edward Small, who financed it, has thrown into his bubbling cauldron practically every ingredient except newts' legs and adders' tongues...
...Soviet Citizeness Strelkach, who was thrown into a Belgrade prison in March of this year, was summoned every night for questioning for 22 successive days...Six times she was thrown into a cell with only enough room to stand...
...commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...
...ancient town of Mell, in Poland, where the travelers elect to stay, is a faultless work of pure imagination, a distillation of all European cathedral towns and watering places, with a few touches of South Africa and Greenwich Village thrown in. Medieval houses and cobbled streets fill young Morgan with wonder on his first sunny morning...
...other extreme, the slump in textiles and jewelry had thrown approximately one in five out of work in Providence. But, paradoxically, there was enough buying power left in slump-struck Providence so that butchers could sell lamb chops at from...