Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SINCE MY ROOMMATE threw his cards at my feet, I've watched my own collection of VendaCards grow. I have one that works in the Widener photocopiers. This is a valuable one--it works in Lamont and Hilles as well. I have another for the Science Center laser printer, and I have two for the Loeb library at the Design school. At the Loeb, I put my dollar in to get a VendaCard, but when I tried to put more money on the card, I got another one by mistake. So now one of the cards has a few dollars...
...said we should be scared of him," smirks Mike McHugh. "He walked through the door, but after a scuffle, we threw him out." The drunken athlete then threatened to bring on the entire Harvard football team...
...looks as if someone took this page, crumpled it up, and threw it away, and as if someone else took it out of the garbage and smoothed it out--which is exactly what happened...
...laughed. Then she crumpled it up and threw it in the garbage...
Such traits take on new value in police departments that have come under fire for the brutal treatment of suspects in their custody. The videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King by four Los Angeles cops last year threw a spotlight on the use of excessive force by police. The number of reports continues to remain high across the country after the furor that followed that attack. Female officers have been conspicuously absent from these charges: the independent Christopher commission, which investigated the L.A.P.D. in the aftermath of the King beating, found that the 120 officers with the most...