Word: threw
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Danger Areas?" Six hundred door-to-door canvassers drank thousands of cups of tea in thousands of kitchens, patiently explained reasons for evacuation. All told, about 40,000 more children were sent away, but the rest would not go. President of the Board of Education Herwald Ramsbotham threw up his hands, admitted: "Compulsory evacuation of school children is politically and socially impossible...
...Winthrop threw Dunster all over the ice and came up with an 11 to 0 conquest with Hal Tighhnan leading the attack with three tallies. Kirkland was defeated by Dudley 4 to 1 in a thrilling match. In the final feature of the program Eliot eked out a 4 to 3 win from Lowell. Lindley Burton chalked up all the Belboy markers, while for Eliot, Gordon Lyle passed the goalie twice and Fred Herter's score in the final minutes of play spelled victory for Eliot...
...surrounding Argirocastro. There the Italians also fired the town and fled up the road toward Tepeleni-harassed by snipers and artillery from the hills above. Before the Italian rear guard of tanks retired, the Greek infantry stormed the town. They dropped from balconies on to the roofs of tanks, threw hand grenades into the openings, jammed the tank-tread mechanisms with their bayonets...
...front.* The last part of this lame story is obviously untrue, but it may be that behind the beard of many an "Al banian" who incited his comrades' sur render or rebellion grinned the sly face of a British Intelligence operative. But the fact remains that Italy threw into the fight, at the outset, ten full divisions numbering, with supply and labor troops, over 200,000 men, to which two more divisions were added after the going got rough. These included many celeri (mobile) units. At the Pindus passes the invaders were confronted by not more than eight divisions...
...hearings threw Brooklyn College into turmoil. Seven of the eight accused teachers hotly denied that they were Communists. (David White was silent.) In Brooklyn streets, small boys threw snowballs at Brooklyn undergraduates, hooted after them: "Reds, Reds." In the college, class work almost stopped. Indignant groups of students gathered in the halls, hissed Dr. Grebanier as he passed. Few doubted the truth of his testimony, but leftists and non-leftists alike agreed that...