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Word: hurl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less, because I know that wickedness is a part of human nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests prick me with their poison and hurl all kinds of calumnies against me. . . Dictatorship is the greatest sin in the religion of Islam. Fascism and Islamism are absolutely incompatible. Fascism arises in the West, not among people of Islamic culture. . . Fascism would be possible only if the Shah were to return or if Communism were to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Khomeini and the Veiled Lady | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

SOMETIMES I go to the Orson Welles, like when someone forces me to or it's free. I'm always afraid I'm going to lose control at the Orson Welles, lose control and scream "Bergman stinks" as I hurl the coffee-maker against the t-shirt display on the art deco wall. However this reaction isn't entirely the fault of the Welles, which I believe was named the Real Paper's Most Smug Theater of 1976. I learned to fear so-called "art films" and the theaters that screen them at a very early age, when...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: Truth and Beauty | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...Island residents howled and demonstrated effectively for a while against the Concorde's landing in New York as if it were a fresh incursion into Cambodia. In North Carolina, where wets and dries fuss interminably over the issue of legalizing liquor by the drink, all partisans tend to hurl themselves into the fray as though life and death depend on whether brown-bagging survives or goes by the boards. When the zealous spirit prevails, all perspective seems lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Menace of Fanatic Factions | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...surrender from the enigmatic MOVE members. O'Neill then ordered two dozen members of the special stake-out unit to walk inside and come out with the radicals. As the policemen gingerly walked inside, cries of infants were heard over a loudspeaker that MOVE members had used to hurl invectives at police. MOVE members had long sworn they would not come out alive. They warned that the police, by attempting to forcibly make them appear in court on violations of the city's health codes, would end up having to kill innocent mothers and their babies. Police ignored these warnings...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Summer in the City | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...never before, American multinationals in South Africa are coming under fire in the U.S. At one shareholders' meeting after another, critics hurl epithets ("partner in apartheid," "friend of discrimination"). The N.A.A.C.P., hardening its stand, now calls for a total withdrawal of Yankee firms from white-dominated parts of South Africa. The Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black minister from Philadelphia and a director of General Motors, has been urging a strict code of conduct for U.S. companies in the land of apartheid and demanding that they actively help black workers overcome various bars to forming unions. Anti-apartheid protests stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's South African Dilemma | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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