Word: hurl
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...question remains: Why, of all the styles designers hurl down the runway, did jeans catch on as chic? If dressing is a form of self-expression, jeans articulate what Americans want to say now. "People want authenticity," says Andrew Bolton, associate curator at the Costume Institute. "That's why vintage jeans--with that lineage back to the miners--have a huge appeal." While jeans always suggest ordinariness and comfort, they're now also a style vehicle. At a time when it seems superficial to be thinking about clothes, jeans allow individuality without ostentation. They're a uniform, without being uniform...
...would have thought that Harvard would have been able to get past a high-powered Brown lineup while held to a meager four hits through eight innings? Who would have thought that Ben Crockett could hurl a one-run gem on three days rest, nearly breaking the Harvard strikeout record he set a couple weeks ago? Who could have seen CrocKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKett coming...
Although Milosevic would surely hurl some ferocious accusations at the former president—he has already condemned the Clinton administration for “genocide” against Serbs—Clinton’s testimony would only help America’s reputation abroad. By confronting and refuting Milosevic’s claims, Clinton would provide the world with his side of the argument. The trial reaches the eyes and ears of thousands of Bosnians, Croats and Serbs through local television broadcasts, and it would certainly smooth relations with them if Clinton were to testify to America?...
Here's a modest proposal. As Kennedy notes, the main reason blacks use the N word among themselves is to take away its power to hurt and demean when white people hurl it at them. But when whites try to use it in the ways blacks do, it falls flat because it lacks authenticity. So, instead of copycatting black slang, it would make more sense for white would-be hipsters to demonstrate a little originality by calling themselves slurs that blacks have used to demean white people, such as cracker, honky or ofay. They could even give the epithets...
...documenting the demise of the English Liberal party, the historian George Dangerfield wrote that it “was the child of Progress, which is not only an illusion, but an athletic illusion, and which insists that it is better to hurl oneself backwards than to stand still.” It may be wishful thinking, but I sincerely hope that our PSLM friends think hard before raising the banner and again hurling themselves onto the barricades. Give the HCECP recommendations a chance to work before describing them as inadequate simply because they do not include...