Word: hurl
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...form of terrorism. In flagrant violation of University rules and ethical norms, Natalie posters have a median life span of about four hours before being ripped down (an Ad Board-able offense). What is it about these posters that is so objectionable? Do they feature aborted fetuses? Or hurl expletives at women who have had abortions? On the contrary. These posters are not objectionable in any way, featuring only simple pictures and factual statements...
...including no fewer than three versions of the giant reptile himself. Never has a fighting game been this outrageously over-the-top. You get to stomp on reasonably realistic re-creations of San Francisco, Seattle, London and, of course, Tokyo and pick up structures like the Space Needle and hurl them at your opponent. Watch out for those pesky humans, whose tanks and helicopters will swarm around you the moment you start smashing their property. No rubber suit required, unless you're into that sort of thing...
...know from my personal experiences here how the overwhelming majority of Europeans feel great sympathy and affection for America. That’s why I’ve been so disappointed to read the columns and articles of some hardline commentators back home, who haphazardly hurl epithets—“anti-American,” “appeasers,” “dictator coddlers” and so forth—at Europeans. Describing the people who rushed to our side after Sept. 11 this way is wrong, and that sort of rhetoric flies...
...chase took a circuitous route around Porter Square, ending when the thief threw the guitar over a high wall and proceeded to hurl himself over as well...
...course, the issues are complicated and could require decades and trillions of dollars to resolve. But part of the problem is that it's easier to protest, to hurl venom at practices you don't like, than to find new ways to do business and create change. The dogma of traditional green activism--that business (and economic growth) is the enemy, that financial markets can't be trusted, that compromise means failure--has done little to save the planet. Which means it's fair to ask the question: Have some of the greens' tactics actually made things worse...