Word: hurleds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dignity. He resolved to become their historian. As he wrote: "I have flown to their rescue-not of their lives or of their race (for they are 'doomed' and must perish), but to the rescue of their looks and their modes, at which the acquisitive world may hurl poison and every besom of destruction, and trample them down and crush them to death; yet, phoenix-like, they may rise ... and live again upon canvas...
...recent years, many of the principals of has-been Governments have taken up residence on the edge of events. Sustained by lobbying, lecture fees and foundation grants, they hurl some derision, no little doubt and-always- advice into the midst of the newcomers on active duty. The spectacle of has-beens in the shadows yearning for a return to power (Republican Henry Kissinger as well as Democrat Walter Mondale) may be our vague answer to parliamentary government. This kind of criticism and comment has the benefit of sharpening debate and the debit of heightening confusion...
...woman was right. Police recovered a Belgian-made Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol, similar to a 38-cal. gun, flung away by the would-be killer after the shooting. *A strange charge to hurl at the present Pope, though the historical memory of the Crusades still rankles among some Muslims. They were military expeditions from Christian Europe aimed at reconquering the Palestinian shrines of Jesus' life from their Islamic occupiers. The First Crusade was inspired by Pope Urban II in 1095, and his successors encouraged several more. But the eighth and last Crusade ended in 1270, more than...
...Seaver finally threw a no-hitter in 1978. Against which team did he hurl...
...costumes. He hears giggling nearby, and crawls under the bed to investigate. A spin along a velvet-lined roller coaster track treats him to a panorama of his past sexual encounters. At the bottom of the track, in hideous anticipation, wait the women of the convention. They hurl him into a cage and truck him off to his trial. Acquitted of an unknown crime. Snaporaz elects nevertheless to suffer the punishment: revelation of his Ideal Woman...