Word: threw
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...still had a tennis ball in my hand that l had picked up at the tennis courts. The girl came up with a proposition: Throw the ball. If it went between the goal posts, l would go to Harvard. If not, Stanford. Fair enough, l figured. So, l threw the ball, and here...
...good time, records show the Shooting Club threw elaborate banquets. A menu from a banquet given for members of the club in 1887 showed that the expert shooters dined on patties of lobster, gloucester, croquettes of chicken auxpetits pois, spaghetti parmesan au gratin and banana fritters glace benedictine...
Harvard won the first running event, the 4x100 relay, in 42.73 seconds as the Yale team dropped the baton on the first exchange. The Crimson tacked on quick wins in the javelin when sophomore Chris Clever threw 66.34 meters to lead a Harvard sweep, and the long jump, which sophomore Arthur Fergusson won at 7.28 meters...
Last month Hallmark delivered a different kind of greeting to its competitors: "You're toast." The company launched a new 99[cents] line, undercutting the basic price by a buck, and threw a $50 million ad campaign behind the new product. (Tag line: "Why not?") Hallmark too is trying to ignite sales in its 20,000 mass-market retail outlets and erase any notion consumers might have that it's a high-priced product. But the move--remember Marlboro Friday, when market leader Philip Morris cut the price of smokes?--will fall heavily on its struggling rivals, who can least...
...Herb Schrayshuen, 44, an engineer at a public utility in upstate New York, thought he knew the drill: toil away for another 15 or 20 years, then drift off into a cozy retirement on the back of a nice, fat company pension. But last summer his employer threw a wrench into that plan. The utility converted the old-fashioned pension system, in which employees earn the bulk of benefits during their last few years, into a new cash-balance plan, in which they earn at a steadier rate throughout their careers. It sounded simple enough, but once...