Word: threw
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...News. Press tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Post in 1976, lost about $150 million in a dozen years before caving in. The latest would-be savior was Peter Kalikow, like Zuckerman a real estate lord, who ran down the circulation (from 550,000 to about 438,000), threw his real estate holdings into bankruptcy and exacted a 20% pay cut from his staff before finally putting the paper up for sale. Answering the call was Hoffenberg, whose millions come from "financial services," in this case buying other business's bad debts at a discount and then hounding the debtors...
...Philadelphia, U.S. Indoor tournament chairman Tom Gowen, Ashe's ball boy at the 1963 tournament, remembered Ashe not only as a great player, but "he was such a gentleman, on and off the court. Never threw his racket, never argued a call. He handled himself with quiet dignity...
Murphy was the officer on the scene when Norcott first lost the chicken. According to Norcott, students filled up the chicken with beer or water and drank from the mouth. At one point students started throwing the chicken at each other, and one fan threw it at Murphy...
Kazarian, whose investment group acquired financially troubled Sunbeam-Oster (ne Allegheny International) in 1990, was sacked by the company's board after a series of bizarre incidents. According to the Wall Street Journal, he fired a BB gun at empty chairs during a meeting while shouting "Die! Die!," threw a pint of orange juice past his controller's head, stomped on telephones in anger, and made lewd and vulgar comments to women in public. He was also reported to have regularly berated his senior officers, allegedly calling one of them a "scum." Kazarian denied the allegations...
...wife,' he said, 'and I'm going to teach her a lesson.' He wasn't concerned that I was there. That's true of a lot of these men. They're not ashamed of what they're doing. They feel above the law." Shocked and confused, Donna threw the roll of film into a drawer, trying to deny that the beating had occurred. When she finally developed the film months later and looked at the pictures, she resolved never to be silent again. "I realized I couldn't be an accomplice...