Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francisco got the ball back on its own 4 with 33 seconds left and no timeouts. Young threw a 23-yard pass to Chuck Levy, but William White made sure there wasn't another miracle for the 49ers, intercepting a pass on the final play of the game...
While Smith and Hoard had big days, the rest of the Vikings weren't exactly plodding Sunday. Randall Cunningham threw three touchdown passes, and Randy Moss and Carter each had 45-yard catches to set up scores. Moss also caught a TD pass...
...action. Northwest Airlines has permanently blacklisted three violent travelers from flying. Yet prosecuting air rage isn't easy; many countries have no jurisdiction over a passenger who arrives on a foreign airline. In the U.S., the Justice Department is working harder to convict defendants; last summer a man who threw hot coffee on a flight attendant and tried to open an emergency door was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. This fall British Airways began handing out "warning cards" to anyone getting dangerously out of control. Some airlines include a pair of plastic handcuffs as standard...
Technically, Johnson was impeached for firing his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, who was a Radical Republican sympathizer. Johnson's enemies said the dismissal violated the Tenure of Office Act, a law that was later judged to be unconstitutional. The legislators threw in a few other charges, including conspiracy and bringing Congress into disrepute. "A shaggy mountain of malice had panted, heaved and labored," an early Johnson biographer fulminated, "and this small and very scaly mouse was the result...
...Harvard Street resident reports that an unknown individual repeatedly rang her doorbell during the night of Dec. 12. She alleges they also threw a brown paper bag containing a liquor bottle through her dining room window...