Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ferarra threw it up the middle, hoping to catch the defensive backs guarding the sidelines. But instead of catching Ludwig, Ludwig caught...
When Ferrara got shaken up on a play, Kaz came in for one play and threw one pass...
Herrnstein threw himself into the quagmire with a 1971 article in the Atlantic Monthly. He wrote that because economic status depends in good measure on IQ, which he believed was largely determined by genes, a true meritocracy, such as America sought to be, would develop a hereditary upper class, a notion the book elaborates into an emerging "cognitive elite." Before long, his classes at Harvard were being disrupted by student protesters...
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was expected to lay out plans for a new democratic government today, but instead fudged on the details and threw an olive branch to Haiti's elite. In his first address since his triumphant return, Aristide, speaking from the National Palace, simply promised a new government of "rich and poor." The rich had feared he would try to redistribute their wealth. Aristide also blamed right-wing foes for paying troublemakers to incite street violence that the rich are blaming on Aristide allies -- particularly an incident early today in which 60 youths looted a store...
...heaven, but who cares? Once it's frozen it ain't gonna smell bad. But I wouldn't want my family to eat that chicken," she says. If the chicken parts seemed bad, Poole was permitted to trim or condemn them. But "I got intimidated by supervisors if I threw too much into the condemned barrel," Poole says. "Supervisors get bonuses for saving as much chicken as possible. The USDA inspectors make their rounds, but they can't be two places at once. And we couldn't say anything to them or it would be our jobs...