Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team appearance today is stark contrast to the team that took the field for the National Championship. In that game, the quarter-back which threw the winning touchdown was listed as 150 Ibs., today our QB, senior Jay Snowden, weighs in at 200 Ibs., while the team captain, tackle Sean Riley, tips the scales at 285 Ibs. It is quite a different game...
Pete then stepped up to the baseline and threw in a puff-ball serve with no juice on it. When he won the point, it became a legendary moment. Simply winning a point after something like that is huge. It was not over...
...congenial banter with hard-eyed stares. Not five minutes later, his face fixed in a pained smile, Dole retreated to his motorcade. As he crossed what must have seemed like miles of inner-city street, he saw one smiling dark face--mine, as it turned out--and he threw an arm around my shoulder. "How ya doing?" he enthused. "Fine." I replied. "How are you doing, Senator?" Finally he recognized me again, and his eyes opened wide in the awful realization of a failed rescue attempt...
...campaign against Barzani. In exchange, Tehran left him a large cache of weapons. That, said Barzani, is what scared him into his unthinkable alliance with Saddam. Still, Kurdish alliances can change in minutes. Barzani has already passed a message to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, saying he threw in with the Kurds' old tormentor only to counterbalance Iranian military intervention on Talabani's side. Now he wants the U.S. to come back and make peace among the Kurds. That would be a fool's mission, since many Kurds were revolted by an alliance, however momentarily useful, with the Butcher...
...Thee but Handel's Largo--and the stories end, leaving dead calm and chilling mystery. And a few shreds of nautical bandsman's lore, useless now that the old liners are gone. "Who could know beforehand," thinks the bandmaster early in the voyage, "that old ladies threw up at The Tales of Hoffmann if the winds were high...