Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertake history's greatest amphibious invasion, the Allied powers had assembled 150,000 men, 1,500 tanks, 5,000 ships and 9,000 planes. The German enemy was reeling: his cities had been bombed, he had lost North Africa and been thrown back to the seven hills of Rome. Wounded he was-but still deadly dangerous, with 60 divisions, including his crack Panzers, to defend Western Europe. Adolf Hitler correctly divined Normandy as the probable Allied Schwerpunkt, concentrated his armored reserves behind seven infantry divisions in the target area and, closer to Germany, maintained strength...
Fueling Facts. In England, a booklet just issued by the National Coal Board explains how to shovel coal: "Examine the shovel, approach the coal, grasp the shovel, make a forward stroke, raise the load, swing the shovel in the direction in which the coal is to be thrown...
Tubman has eagerly thrown his country open to foreign investment, which he much prefers to gifts or loans ("That old Scriptural saying that a borrower is servant unto the lender holds true in every instance"). With a generous tax policy and no currency restrictions-the U.S. dollar is the medium of exchange-Liberia has attracted more than $120 million in foreign capital. The Italians are building roads, the West Germans are helping to develop a new port along the southern coast, and the Israelis are putting up a new hospital, hotel, treasury building and executive mansion. Goodrich is planting...
...army officer respectfully sprang to attention.) At Sultan Ahmet Square, site of the hippodrome where Byzantine mobs once fought out their political differences, a crowd of 7,000 broke through police lines to cheer Inonu with cries of "Hurriyet!" (Freedom). Police tried tear gas, only to have their grenades thrown back at them by foresighted demonstrators who came equipped with gloves. Undeterred by all the fighting, Inonu moved on to Ankara...
Under Rocks. Dr. Segal is no native Kansan. "I was born on the upper East Side of New York, in the shadow of the el," he says. "I was thrown out of school several times, and in junior high school I was voted the least likely to succeed. Mostly I was thrown out of school because I liked to cut class and turn over rocks in Van Cortlandt Park. The craziest things crawled...