Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese friend. While researching the characterof his friend's mother, a retired geisha, Goldenfound he was writing about the wrong subject andswitched his focus completely. 750 pages went intothe trashcan, and he wrote 800 pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week-long anxiety attack, decided that this wasa story about "a world" and one that needed to betold in the first person. After six weeks ofwriting, Golden developed a voice that mixes thecleverness of a gifted woman with...
...ANYONE MISPLACED A Halloween mask with a pump that sprays red "blood?" A few months ago, it turned up in dorm crew's Weld basement office, a Yard-wide depot for items lost and found. After it spent a month unclaimed, though, dorm crew threw it out. This lost and found only keeps its loot for about a month before it's shipped off to the homeless. Apparently, the homeless didn't want the mask...
...days ago there was one Internet. Now there are two. Yesterday morning a consortium of more than a hundred corporations and research universities threw the switch on the Abilene Project, a network of 10,000 miles of fiber optic cable that will serve as the prototype for the high-performance, no-waiting Internet of the future...
...They didn't play great defense," said freshman point guard Jen Monti. "I think we beat ourselves in a lot of cases. Our shooting was not great and we threw the ball away a bunch of times...
Stood by Sean Penn when he: threw rocks at a reporter...