Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disbelief at cranberry juice that cost nearly $7 a quart at the going exchange rate, some four times as much as a similar bottle would sell for back home. A large box of Cheerios cost more than $12. But it was the meat counter, she says, that "really threw me for a loop." There she discovered roast beef for about $16 a quarter-pound. That made McBain wonder whether her husband, an advertising executive, should uproot their family and accept an offer from his company to transfer to Japan...
Other teams knew what to concentrate on in preparing for Harvard. If they could take Martins off his game, they felt they could win. So they threw their goons at the scrappy senior and goaded him into taking retaliation penalties...
...Harvard found itself shorthanded nine times. The Crimson had good penalty killing all year, but playing a man down tired out the team and threw the forward lines out of whack...
...Sahl and Peter, Paul and Mary and countless other legendary jazz and folk musicians, poets and entertainers all have one thing in common. They made their name at a basement dive in New York City called the Village Vanguard. Last week what may be the oldest nightclub in America threw itself a 60th birthday party, and the joint was more jumping than ever...
...Angels third baseman over threw first, but at least the catcher backed up the play. Replacement players aren't lazy. (At least there's something good to come out of the strike; I guess I'm stretching...