Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line threw its weight on the ice late in the first period, and did its job: increasing penalties applying more hits, and skating less...
Students initially threw toilet paper from the first floor up to the second where students were congregating and "avoiding work," according to residents. People on the second floor reacted by catapulting the toilet paper up all five floors and around the skylight, residents said...
...lost riches that Soviet citizens believe were pilfered by the party. Despite mounting evidence, party officials deny that even one ruble has been squirreled away in foreign banks. But a string of mysterious suicides casts doubt on such disavowals. Five days after the coup fizzled, party treasurer Nikolai Kruchina threw himself out a window. Six weeks later, his predecessor, Georgi Pavlov, fell to his death the same way. And two weeks ago, Dmitri Lisovolik, former deputy chief of the party's international department, also leaped out a window several weeks after investigators found $600,000 in U.S. dollars...
...City. I do not like needles, but I like surgery even less; as it turned out, the worst of the experience was feeling a mild electric tingling. Forty minutes later, I gingerly tried the knee to discover that the pain and most of the swelling had vanished. As I threw away my crutches, Sally Dan admonished me to avoid alcohol and sex for 24 hours...
...with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely did not embody the state's hog-stomping, hell-raising ethos was Buddy Roemer, with all his dour talk of austerity, responsibility and honor -- which goes a long way toward explaining why the voters just threw...