Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't. Instead of building off the momentum it had gained off Tommy Holmes's ugly, ugly, goal (he had no idea what he was doing with the puck but somehow willed it in), Harvard went flat and played with as much life as the seafood that the fans threw on the ice following the tying tally...
...attentive listener. She knows everybody but has just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security apparatus: women married to men who can't talk about their work. When Colin retired, these wives got together and threw a bash for Alma--a slumber party with no husbands allowed...
...1970s, where he began a political movement called Kach (Thus). It wasn't long before Kahane's toxic rhetoric fomented murder. In 1983, during a rally held by the Peace Now leftist group, a lone right-winger--not much different from Rabin's alleged assassin, Yigal Amir--threw a grenade into the crowd, killing one Israeli man. It was the first time since the nation was founded that Jews had used violence against fellow Jews for political reasons...
This was certainly a week for ECAC netkeepers. In addition to Choquette's heroics, both Trevor Koenig of Union and Matt Reder of Colgate threw shutouts against the opposition...
...posh offices in London's Mayfair district. White-uniformed butlers glide around serving executives catered gourmet lunches at their desks. Many clients receive annual invitations to conferences like one held in July at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. In 1992, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Investcorp threw a lavish party at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Guests nibbled on caviar served from ice sculptures and strolled under garlands of peonies adorned with caged songbirds. When major deals are in the works, senior executives zoom across the Atlantic on the Concorde. "They fly the Concorde if they want...