Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rose garden behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between--he was resigning as head of the Tories and calling an immediate leadership election so that he could seek a renewed mandate. The time had come...
...featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 50 years ago and brought World War II to an end. Eight people unfurled banners from the second floor balcony above the main entrance to the museum, some shouting, "Never again! Never again!" They also threw pamphlets down at people entering the museum. Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman revised the exhibit -- which originally included graphic depictions of the damage and deaths caused by the bomb -- five times to satisfy congressional critics and outraged veterans' groups. Today, he said: "This is the Enola Gay. It dropped the bomb...
Hundreds of first-years began vomiting in theevening and throughout the night on December 6.More than 200 students went to University HealthServices (UHS), and many more stayed in their dormrooms and threw up there...
...when I joined the Revolutionary Guards [in 1979]," she said. "I used to go out in the patrol car with the sisters [female Revolutionary Guards]. They were looking for women who weren't wearing proper Islamic covering. They threw acid in their faces or said, 'Let me take off your lipstick,' and cut their lips with a razor hidden in a Kleenex." She also recalls the early lure of plunder. "The government offered my husband and me a villa in north Tehran. It was incredible, like a palace. My husband said, 'No, we can't take it.' But there were...
...finally confirm that they were getting more extensive transmissions from what was thought to be O'Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes began swarming over the area. Other planes with special infrared scanners, which could detect the warmth...