Word: hurl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some changes will be more individual. Thayer's unused top floor will be transformed into attic suites with skylights. The Canaday basements will be refurbished to create more office space for student organizations. Hurl-but will get a new entrance easier to find than...
...Forest Service research scientist Sue Ferguson, who has been caught in several small slides. "Sometimes the avalanche releases quietly, like rustling silk." Traveling at speeds that can exceed 80 m.p.h., the rushing snowpack compresses the air at its prow, generating a wind blast strong enough to smash windows and hurl skiers into trees. Once the avalanche stops, the snow mass solidifies, entombing its victims in an icy grip...
...does Clinton seem eager to hurl spears at the Democratic special interests that have long held sway over party doctrine. When the Clintons decided to send their 13-year-old daughter Chelsea to a private school, they failed to accompany the announcement with any challenge to public schools or teachers' unions to make themselves more competitive. On the contrary: Clinton's designated Education Secretary vowed that the President-elect opposed a pilot program to extend to lower- and middle-income families the choice of private schools that the Clintons enjoy. "One is left wondering," said a Clinton adviser, "when...
...anyone would hurl a rock or a Molotov cocktail at another simply because of differences of color or speech or custom remains one of life's most dispiriting mysteries. But the urge to violence can be located in a sociology of causes that eastern Germany has in abundance. The main one is economic collapse. When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east...
...Game Your friends come up from Yale--what to do? You go to the game, have a bad beer or two, and munch raw U.C. burgers. Then you go into the stands and watch that spheroid hurl down the field into the hands of Yale players. (We're going to lose.) But you'll pretend to have fun in the 20 degree weather anyway, discussing with your butt-cold friends your plans for the evening. Of course, there's always a chance that the Crimson will actually play a good game--it happened, after all, as recently...