Word: hurl
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...American Politics. I love the kitsch, the glamour, the lies, the outrageous slander. However it is so overtly theatrical, a circus of the grotesque and iniquitous (is Ross Perot's campaign chief really named Orson Swindle?), that's it's hard to believe it really matters. When the candidates hurl statistics at each other, assign the problems of a nation to its deficit, or impugn each others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway a public...
...head of the 47-member U.S. delegation to the Earth Summit, William Reilly should get extra pay for hazardous duty. On opening day at the huge conference in Rio de Janeiro, the administrator of America's Environmental Protection Agency faced an aggressive global press corps that could hardly hurl its pointed questions fast enough. Why won't the U.S. sign the biodiversity treaty? Why did the U.S. insist on watering down the climate-change pact? Why do Americans consume so much? Isn't it hypocritical for America to call for protection of tropical forests while cutting down its own ancient...
Doyle's 200' hammer throw got second place, three feet short of Cornell's James Fahle's winning hurl. Henry's 1:49.29 in the 800 was just 0.2 seconds off the meet record. Henry finished second, behind Anthony Mays of Brown...
...Rich and Poor. "What a perfect backdrop for a recession that is undercutting the American Dream." Clint Black's One More Payment is a classic hard-times complaint about the rent, the banker at the door, and a roof that is crumbling. But the current country songs also hurl Molotov cocktails at the upper classes and the system that favors them. Brooks succeeded last year in making a national barroom anthem out of Friends in Low Places, which turned an abandoned lover's revenge into an act of social protest. "Blame it all on my roots," he sang. "I showed...
...subspecies of English that certifies Wayne as this month's pop-cultural phenom.) Actually, he is a fairly learned dude; his I.Q. could match those of Bill and Ted and still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors played Darrin on Bewitched: "Dick Sargent, Dick York. Sargent York...