Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegory. The novice smugglers evade a sense of their own villainy through sophistry or indifference. Converse rationalizes that in a world capable of producing the horrors of war, "people are just naturally going to want to get high." Hicks concentrates on the exploit's challenge and itches to hurl his own aggressiveness into the void he imagines around him. Marge, already hooked on pills, accepts the heroin's arrival as fated...
...gift to everyone who persists in misunderstanding such Peckinpah films as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs simply as paeans to brutality and orgies of tasteless violence. Alfredo Garcia could almost be dedicated to those benighted types. It is as if Peckinpah, sick of the accusations, decided to hurl them back and really make a film about violence...
...served him well as a political credo. He deplored categorizing people "as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." The people he despised were those who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center...
Captain Mike O'Malley will hurl this afternoon against the 6-3 Middies. O'Malley most of all has felt the lack of Harvard hitting, as he has lost three close EIBL contests despite pitching well. The senior righty has the fifth best earned run average in the league (2.02) and an 0-3 record...
...there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...