Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casualties rose, the medics were forced to dart from one stricken soldier to another. Crouched near the wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, Fales suddenly spotted five grenades sailing over a wall in his direction. Yelling to warn his comrades, he threw his body over two wounded soldiers to shield them from shrapnel. Meanwhile, Technical Sergeant Tim Wilkinson, 36, a Special Forces medic, also nestled next to the downed helicopter, heard a call from the other side of the street. It was Bray; his men needed medical attention. Yelling across the street for them to "lay down some cover," Wilkinson grabbed...
...ticket to "protection" and "safe" sex. They have said nothing about condom failure rates, although groups like Planned Parenthood put these rates as high as 17 percent overall and 33 percent during teenage use. On Tuesday while I stood in line for dinner at the Union a student threw a handful of condoms at the line. The gesture was indicative of a whole attitude...
...rescue effort was for naught. Venting a death rattle, the patient "threw back his head once more and, staring upward at the ceiling with the glassy, unseeing gaze of open dead eyes, roared out to the distant heavens a dreadful rasping whoop that sounded like the hounds of hell were barking." The intern on duty assured Nuland he had done all that could be done. Conscious only of his failure, the doctor-to-be wept uncontrollably...
...Kelly threw a chair at McGrath, but when the chair missed its target, Kelly punched McGrath, according to an Au Bon Pain employee...
...suffered immense amounts of both physical and emotional abuse. A military social worker testified at Lorena Bobbitt's trial that in a form Mr. Bobbitt filled out after a 1990 marital dispute, he conceded that he had abused his wife, circling categories on the report sheet that included "threw her bodily," "pushed, carried, restrained, grabbed or shoved", and "hit her or tried to hit her with something." There were also eleven defense witnesses who recalled episodes when John Bobbitt had beaten and humiliated his wife in public. Several described seeing Lorena Bobbitt after such episodes with bruises on her arms...