Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though legally bound to convene just three times a year, county commissioners meet weekly. Surprisingly, in the face of such lax requirements, a favorite accusation for the commissioners to hurl at each other is sloth. "The only no-show employee left in the county is Lester Ralph," McLaughlin claims. Danehy estimates that Ralph spends 30 to 45 minutes per week on county business, while he credits McLaughlin with putting in a full 40-hour week to earn his annual $9500 stipend. Danehy himself says he spends a day or two every week at the courthouse...
...your liberal consciousness has been raised you check the label, see Modesto, California (most California wines don't list the winery or put a UFW seal of approval on the label), hurl the bottle at the wall and scream that Gallo cannot deveive those who are aware! All Modesto wines are produced at Ernest and Julio's family winery...
...Gladieux, a flake from Notre Dame, made his mark with the Patriots a few years back with the way he used to hurl his body at the wedge set up by the kick return team. Gladieux didn't last long; he got his eggs scrambled a little too much from all of the wedges he busted...
Groupie Pits. The beauty and ferocious speed of the sport have survived despite the transmutation. With long wicker baskets called cestas strapped to their arms, the players catch and in a single, fluid motion hurl the pelota toward a 40-ft. granite front wall. The pelota-three-fourths the size of a baseball and harder than a golf ball-caroms toward the 176-ft.-long side wall or arcs toward the back wall at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h. To spectators safe behind a wire screen, the ball seems to fly fast but true. A cesta is ribbed, however...
Some witnesses claimed that police had provoked the conflict. A black reporter for the Johannesburg Star saw a police officer pick up a stone and hurl it into the crowd. Then, he said, "some students began picking up stones. Shouting 'Amandhla [power],' they moved haltingly toward the police. A black police sergeant was explaining to a group of parents that there would be no trouble, that the children weren't fighting, when an officer opened fire...