Word: hurl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your father’s funeral. In any case, he didn’t keep her around for her housework.”Frederick’s eyes flared as an inarticulate sound of rage crossed his lips. Quickly, stiffly, he grabbed one of the teacups and made to hurl it towards the terrace. He had done this before, however, and Felicity, anticipating what was to come, clutched his wrist. The two began, simultaneously, to berate each other: insults, oaths, and threats of the most vile sort.Until, suddenly, they stopped.A sound had silenced and frozen the couple, a sound...
...move earned him admirers and enemies. In 1997 a group of men thought to be from Mugabe's secret service, the Central Intelligence Organization, burst into Tsvangirai's 10th-floor offices in Harare and tried to hurl him through a window, but Tsvangirai fought off his attackers. He formed the opposition MDC in 1999. Despite at least three other attempts on his life and, according to the MDC, four arrests, he has fought Mugabe in every election since...
...situation has become so dire that now we feel unspeakably wronged when the administration takes away our liquor-filled pacifier. Rather than hurl accusations of depraved indifference and malice at our superiors, however, we ought to relish in our crime. That old prep school watchword, “don’t get caught,” can at last make its triumphant return to Harvard’s campus...
Reactions to Reagan's defense of his military spending plans were dwarfed by the debate over his vision of satellite missile killers. "To inject and hurl out this new idea while the whole world is waiting for the U.S. to come up with a reasonable arms control proposal I find bizarre," said Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. "Can you imagine the reaction here and abroad if Yuri Andropov had made this speech?" Others were appalled at the enormous potential costs of a space race. Said Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon: "It is a call to siphon...
...other random memorabilia? The possibilities for this type of giveaway are honestly endless, and every year it seems like some team out there finds a way to make the giveaways into an even bigger spectacle. Why have a random drawing when those zamboni-dodging, speed skating John Harvards could hurl them from the ice with little sling-shots? But keeping the crowd entertained consists of free prizes and games until the third period, when teams use their timeouts. How can you make those tense seconds any more exciting? The Kiss Cam. It’s the reason why going...