Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Home & Abroad. In Providence, R.I., Harold Fitzpatrick, after a barroom celebration, explained how he happened to throw bricks through 16 panes of glass in a downtown business building: "I thought I was in Woonsocket...
...answer was to be found at the Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect...
...prestige had been sorely crippled in Korea, and this week all evidence pointed to a secret high-level decision that Korea was no place to repair it. It was noteworthy that the Eighth Army made no effort to throw a defense line across the peninsula; Eighth Army spokesmen denied any commitment to defend Seoul; and heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China...
Indo-China waited tensely for the next Communist move. If Red-backed Ho Chi Minh attacks with his Viet Minh army, De Lattre may throw him back, but if the Chinese pour in, as they have in Korea, the slim French forces will have to pull out. Last week the foreign colony which gathers at Hanoi's Metropole Hotel rustled with rumors. Some said that the Chinese were already advancing from Langson, others that there was a deal on with the Viet Minh. The Metropole's atmosphere was one of anxious, noisy gaiety. Foreign newsmen met with free...
...more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...