Word: threw
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...COURSE, not all compromises are the same. Temporarily settling for recycling in Dunster House seems less a problem than compromising the lofty ideals of Earth Day in the interest of a mega-celebration. (On Saturday, for example, Earth Day organizers threw a huge bash at Jamaica Plain, where hundreds of people gathered to enjoy a barbecue served on disposable plates, cups, knives, forks and spoons...
...recent weekend with George Bush at Camp David strenuous. Among the activities: bowling, tiddlywinks, horseshoes (a presidential triumph), skeet shooting and wally ball (a version of volleyball played on a handball court). Plimpton was surprised that there were no interruptions or calls all weekend -- until their tennis game. "He threw the ball up to serve and the phone rang -- a very odd thing to hear in a forest." The Commander in Chief strode over, picked it up, listened for a moment, and looked at Plimpton. "It's for you," he said...
...Whoever threw the first punch, the race that just ended may win the prize as the most negative one ever, even nastier than anything served up in the 1988 presidential campaign. Mattox, whose campaign slogan was "Texas Tough," accused Richards, a silver-haired grandmother and recovering alcoholic, of being a marijuana-smoking cokehead when she was Travis County commissioner more than a decade ago. She accused him of financial shenanigans, including taking a large campaign contribution from a savings and loan operative. In a television ad, Richards also brought up Mattox's 1984 indictment on a bribery charge, without mentioning...
...started at a Sunday-morning service when one man charged down the aisle, hit the chaplain in the face, grabbed his microphone and started yelling obscenities into it. As the revolt spread, inmates brutalized other prisoners and smashed and set fire to the facility. Some climbed on roofs and threw tiles at riot police who gathered below. Strangeways governor Brendan O'Friel described the outburst as "an explosion of evil . . . possibly the worst incident in the history of the prison service...
...just looking to get a hit," Decareau said. "He was wild and with the bases loaded...I knew he was trying to get the inning over with. He threw a fastball and I hit it pretty good...