Word: threw
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...camera shop two blocks from the Murrah building, lost his best friend, his job, some of his hearing and his peace of mind in the blast. For months afterward, plagued by a constant ringing in one ear, he tormented himself over his first reaction to the explosion that threw him 15 feet onto his back. "I knew my friend was in the building,'' he says, choking up. "Your heart is saying, 'Get him out. He wouldn't leave you.' But your mind is saying, 'No way.' So you feel guilty." Elliott was so humiliated over asking for government help...
...agreement between the Gospels, there is less of that than one might imagine: the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan are just two of several parables that appear in only one version. By 1926, Rudolf Bultmann of Germany's University of Marburg, the foremost Protestant scholar in the field, threw up his hands: he called for a halt to inquiries regarding the Jesus of history. So unreliable were the Gospel accounts that "we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus." He advised good Christian scholars to concentrate on the Jesus of faith...
...score remained 8-7 until the bottom if the eighth, when Harvard exploded for five runs, four unearned, capitalizing off wild pitching--New Hampshire walked the first four batters and threw a wild pitch in the inning--to put some needed insurance runs on the score-board...
...special effects, Institute productions also get frills like smoke, fire and a moving stage made possible by budgetary scraps the A.R.T. can throw their way. "The Cure at Troy" even has a special surprise made feasible by those titillating Harvard connections everyone loves to work. Heaney himself threw in, probably without his normal speaker's fee, his very own marvelous voice, taped, reciting a bit of verse from his very own play...
What the Panorama interview made plain was that in ministering to the needy, Diana was helping herself. She had lost her emotional roots as a child of six when her mother bolted from Earl Spencer. Later, confronted with a shell of a marriage, Diana threw her enormous energies into the world of therapy. Often without publicity, she worked with battered wives and abused children...