Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deep Blue is thinking. And it isn't really Deep Blue either. It's what the guys at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, call Deeper Blue: the second generation of the original Deep Blue, the infamous chess program that one year ago threw a stunning uppercut to human self-esteem by winning the first game of its six-game match against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov, of course, went on to score three victories and two draws to win the match and save mankind; the 33-year-old Russian isn't considered...
...Lawyers for other church-and-state separatists say its lawsuits fell primarily into the nuisance category and few prevailed. Yet her acerbic, sometimes erudite weekly radio show ran on 150 stations. The group was still the only national atheist organization in America, with more than 30 state chapters. It threw national conventions, which, although "outrageously expensive," according to Kerns, were "Madalyn's moment to shine...
DIED. A. RICHARDSON GOODLATTE, 57, New York City's successful anti-subway graffiti warrior; of cancer; in Huntington, New York. Their work scrubbed out as soon as they scribbled, graffitists threw in the spray...
...particular band, the audience was graced with two extraordinarily energetic opening sets by the Blue Meanies and Reel Big Fish, even if the word ska was not a part of their vocabulary. Following the amazing music of the opening bands, however, was the disappointing monotony of Goldfinger. The band threw in a few twists that kept the crowd on its feet and a little quirky entertainment to push the music forward, but these attempts drowned in an otherwise sluggish set of tunes...
...would pop up every so often, as if it remained a vestigial part of the band by failing to make a musical statement. Consequently, the noisy uniformity of the music washed away the lyrics into inaudible oblivion. Unbelievably, however, the audience continued to eat up the performance as they threw themselves at each other and jumped along to the drum rhythms...