Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plath reads her poems with a relentless intensity. She seems to hurl her words at the listener, each elegantly rounded vowel like a trajectory for a gunshot-sharp consonant. Just as she tried in her poetry to use her craft and skill to "manipulate intense personal experience"--as she says in an interview included on the record--so she uses impeccable diction to give a defining framework to the raw, brute emotion in her voice...
...world "game" is a euphemism; racing at a lower cadence is a great disadvantage. When Parker asks one of the strokes to lower the cadence, the stroke's pained grimace decontorts itself just long enough to hurl an angry string of obscenities at the coach. "Well," says Parker calmly putting down his megaphone, "it's good to know they care...
...seems that large groups of women representing a fair cross-section of Radcliffe that gather regularly for the sole purpose of being together are doomed to disintegration, as though some sex-linked centrifugal force at the core must hurl them apart. The first meeting of the Eliot House women's group last year blistered with hostility. Some women argued that the group should not meet during dinner because men in the house objected. The group soon degenerated into a couple of milk and cookie get-togethers and then faded away...
Russian Roulette. Ford, however, may have occasion to dust off that accusation and hurl it at Congress before too long. Despite the need for fast action, liberal Democrats in the House last week ensured a prolonged fight over a tax bill. Their leaders were ready to speed through both chambers a $21.3 billion tax reduction-$5.3 billion more than the amount requested by Ford and more heavily weighted in favor of lower-income groups. But the young Democrats insisted on adding an amendment to repeal the oil-depletion allowance that would save the oil industry some $2.5 billion this year...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and control 40% of the world's proven oil reserves. The primary target would be Saudi Arabia, which has 56.5% of this oil. According to the plan, the Saudis would be overwhelmed by a U.S. air-sea strike force prepared to hurl four divisions of troops at the Ghawar wellhead and the loading jetties of the U.S.-built oil facility at Dhahran...