Word: threw
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Gorbachev was appalled at the bloodshed in the Baltics and devastated by the criticism that rained down on him at home and abroad. When he met with a group of international peace activists, instead of radiating his usual sense of command, he all but threw himself on the mercy of his visitors. He promised he was still committed to making the U.S.S.R. a "law-based society." He portrayed himself as a victim of tumultuous events and historical currents, compared himself to a voyager who was "out of sight of land." He was, he remarked, feeling seasick...
...ashore after crossing the Adriatic on grossly overcrowded boats, only to be penned into coal docks and the local soccer stadium without adequate food or water. The angry men and women then proceeded to wreck the stadium. Later, when supplies did arrive, complained a Caritas relief worker, "the police threw food at them like...
...instances of victimology are so ludicrous. Two men hiding in a New York City subway tunnel were burned when they accidentally touched an electrified rail; a jury threw $13 million at them. The city is appealing the award. Joel Steinberg, the wife beater and child abuser who was convicted in New York City in 1989 of the battering death of his six-year-old illegally adopted daughter Lisa, told the court, "I'm a victim, as was everyone else who knew Lisa...
...aired in 1989, he sued Timex and the advertising firm Fallon McElligott, which created the spot, for a very down-to-earth $8 million. Geller asserted that Timex used the fame of his "psychic abilities" to sell their watches. But last month a New York district court judge threw out four of Geller's five claims, such as the assertion that the ad violated his right to control his own image and publicity. The case will now proceed on the sole claim that Tim Dry, the actor featured in the commercials, "was sufficiently similar to the plaintiff to create...
...Dresden last April, neo-Nazis threw a Mozambican to his death from a moving streetcar. In May they invaded a tenement in Wittenberg, forcing two Namibians off a fourth-floor balcony and critically injuring them. Two weeks ago, 50 skinheads stormed a center for asylum seekers from the Third World, smashing windows and pummeling residents. No one with a dark skin, police officials say, can feel safe on the streets of eastern Berlin...