Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the blood began flowing, the Bush administration threw out the only bargaining chip the U.S. had by announcing that military force would not be used to fight the Serbs. By then, no amount of economic or diplomatic pressure could work since there was nothing to back...
...police officer] picked me up by the pants, put his stick to my neck and threw me up against a car," Asamaoh says...
...nonessential matters while he focused on the crucial part of any case -- what he called the nub. In pursuit of that, he was brilliantly logical behind his haze of concessions, his diffidence about ancillary matters: "He was not impulsive, fanciful or imaginative; but cold, calm and precise. He threw his whole mental light around the object." In stating the nub, he chose words "that contained the exact coloring, power and shape of his ideas...
...written statement, Cambridge resident Henry Grodzins said Behenna, without displaying any badge and speaking in a "threatening tone," picked him up and threw him to the ground on DeWolfe Street...
...Bush threw the dummy, made of stuffed clothing and wearing a homemade "Yale"sign, from the top floor two more times...