Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the Congress of People's Deputies met Friday, even Yeltsin's archenemy, Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, was disavowing impeachment. However, that issue remains in doubt. On Sunday an attempt at compromise threw the crisis into an explosive new phase. Yeltsin and Khasbulatov stunned the Congress with a new plan calling for elections and abandonment of the April 25 referendum. The Deputies reacted angrily, voting down the plan and agreeing to a secret ballot on the removal of Khasbulatov and the impeachment of Yeltsin. Both men survived the secret vote. When the Congress convened, Yeltsin was predicting that "there will...
...minutes into the first period, for instance, Gustafson threw a hip check that sent a Princeton player flying across the ice and had the Tiger seeing stars for the rest of the game. Cohagan has proven all season that he isn't one to shy from contact, especially when he took a stick to the face and saw some of his blood redden the ice against St. Lawrence...
...locker room, sophomore Steve Martins--whose return from injury actually threw these players together--walked around after the game repeating "green line's the best, green line's the best...
...replace the red poinsettias with the white ones Diller prefers. His outbursts of temper are legendary. During an argument with Stephen Chao, the former head of production for Fox's owned stations (later fired by Murdoch for hiring a nude male model to illustrate a lecture on censorship), Diller threw a videocassette so hard it broke a hole in the wall. Chao put a frame around...
...become a sort of Bermuda Triangle into which human decencies vanish without a trace. In the post-cold war era, it is unsettling to think that conscienceless tribal ferocity may catch on around the world. Rape, of course, has been an apparently inevitable part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied, "Can't you understand...