Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartmouth rallied to win for the third straight week, but its 42-25 victory over Columbia was a rally in name only. The Big Green trailed 10-0 and 25-21 before Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler turned up the heat. For the game, Fiedler threw for three touchdowns, ran for one and option-pitched for two more...
Then you have to reckon with their effect on ads, packaging, T shirts, window design in shops, the whole reappropriation party -- amusing and even joyous at first, and then, like most parties, a drag -- that the American commercial world threw to welcome back the images and techniques Lichtenstein took from it and put into a zippier, more art-conscious form, ripe for reuse as "quality" stuff...
...stunning rejection of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Canadian voters threw Prime Minister Kim Campbell from office and elected Jean Chretien as their next leader. Chretien's Liberal Party won 177 of 295 seats in the House of Commons, while the Progressive Conservatives lost 153 of their 155 seats, the worst defeat in Canadian history. Chretien quickly caused concern in Washington by declaring that he would demand changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement...
During a United Mine Workers Association strike a few years ago, for example, local police had to call in federal and state agents to help control strike-related violence. Portions of Pittsburgh were transformed into a battlefield as striking workers detonated bombs to damage business property, threw molotov cocktails, hurled rocks at replacement workers and tried to warn them off by using nails to puncture their car's tires and threatening their lives...
...understood everything without understanding a word of what she was saying. With a deft turn of my hand, she doomed me to four children, did I understand? She went on like a whirlwind, about family, and success, and friends, and the future, and before I knew it, she threw the ball in my court. "Do you have any questions...