Word: threw
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NAVY. The Navy's oldest pollution problem has been the waste generated by ships, some of which -- like aircraft carriers with crews of 5,000 -- are small floating cities. For generations, Navy vessels just threw their garbage and industrial wastes overboard. Now sea dumping of toxic materials is unnecessary, thanks to onboard compactors and a vigorous program of reducing the amount of packaging taken aboard...
Thorne said he heard a switch-blade pop open and saw the man swing at him with a knife. Thorne threw up his hands to block his face, and was cut across three fingers...
Across Cambridge in the Eliot House room of die-hard Republicans Mark J. Sneider '93 and Jeffrey B. Golden '93, a small but hardy bunch threw a "Bush commiseration party," drowning their sorrows in American beer and Southern Comfort...
Acontingent of Eliot House residents betrayed their pampered past and aristocratic heritage last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin...
...More and more, it looks to me like Maya threw the election away from me," McKay said. "I didn't want to accuse her, but this report is simply facts and the facts don't speak well...