Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kelly threw for three touchdowns and Thurman Thomas, the NFL's most valuable player, rushed for 100 yards...
Part of the problem, of course, was the 20-day layoff. Harvard's last game priot to the Detroit trip was a December 7 tie (2-2) against Cornell. That certainly threw Harvard out of synch, which would explain Harvard's somewhat sluggish skating and somber power play performance (2-for-12 in both games...
...hardened, sinewy blond who is almost succeeding in fighting off the encroachments of middle age tells her unstylish, homebody sister how sorry she is that the homebody threw away her life caring for their bedridden father and addled aunt. The care giver insists she has no regrets: "I can't imagine a better way to have spent my life." Later she explains, "I have had such love." She does not mean her elderly wards' love for her -- they are often cross or ungrateful -- but rather hers for them. She is not confessing to neurotic possessiveness or bidding for sainthood...
California's initiative follows the lead set by Michigan last October, when Republican Governor John Engler threw 90,000 "able-bodied" adults off the welfare rolls in an effort to close a projected $1 billion budget gap. But Engler's "solution" has produced more chaos than cure. Michigan's unemployment rate is greater than 9%, and even highly qualified workers are finding it hard to get a job. In the wake of Engler's edict, thousands of welfare recipients have lost their apartments; seven people who were disqualified from receiving welfare have died from exposure this winter...
...when the U.S. was sinking into the quagmire of Vietnam, Robert McNamara resigned as Secretary of Defense and became president of the World Bank. Having retreated from the war against communism, he threw himself into the struggle against another enemy, which has turned out to be more robust and insidious: human misery so extreme and extensive that it can spread across borders in the form of marauding armies or refugees fleeing hunger and chaos...