Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deadline set by Harvard Law School students for Dean Robert C. Clark's written explanation drew to a close, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson yesterday threw his support behind the student activists...
...foreign policy: The Gulf War and Panama: Bush orchestrated the lightning victory that liberated Kuwait last winter. Earlier, after being accused of indecision, he dispatched an invasion force that over threw Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega...
...American women perceive a backlash against their progress, it is probably due more to what they encountered at work than on the screen or in the newspapers. The persistent recession pitted men and women against one another in a battle over job quotas that threw all the issues of economic fairness into bold relief. "Women, after all, and minorities are the first to lose jobs," observes Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black political leader in Los Angeles. "So there is what you might call a new militancy among women...
Think of Lautrec and you think, first, of line -- graceful, nervous, stabbing out to kill from behind a screen of negligent-looking spontaneity. His energy was abrasive, and where it touched the world, it threw off hot, stinging little sparks like an emery wheel. When his poster Queen of Joy, 1892 -- advertising a now forgotten novel by Victor Joze -- with its mordant image of the courtesan kissing the fleshy nose of a fat banker, went up on the walls of Paris, a pair of stockbroker's clerks were sent out to tear down every one they could find...
...faced with the prospect of a legal donnybrook that would cost more than $1 million. "We knew that some of the cops stood to lose their homes to pay damages if we lost in court," says Kathleen O'Neill Margiotta, then town council president. Last November the municipality threw in the towel and settled...