Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pounded the bus and slashed its tires. As usual, local police had a gentleman's agreement with the Ku Klux Klan and stayed away. The bus limped five miles out of town, escorted by a caravan of pickup trucks, and stopped. Someone threw a fire bomb inside, and the crowd yelled, "Roast them! Burn them alive!" The Freedom Riders staggered off the smoking bus, and as one, Hank Thomas, hit the ground, reeling from fumes, a white man asked solicitously, "Are you O.K.?" And then took a baseball bat and swung at Thomas as hard as he could...
...Lastly, get to know everyone you meet from Cabot K. The last party they threw was by far the biggest and best I've seen at Harvard. My friends and I estimated that one out of six upperclass students was there...
...Cambridge resident reports that someone threw red paint on stone fixtures located outside her house...
CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland--Alberto Tomba threw himself to the ground at the finish line, rolled on his back and burst into tears. Then he stripped to his undershirt and hugged his sister...
...daze in some nearby woods. "You know, she's my only grandchild, and I'm just glad she's here," says her grandmother Kandi Weaver. "She's been through a lot. Everybody's been through a lot. She told me that the tornado had picked her up and threw her into the woods. And I told her that it did the same thing to her mother, but it had just hurt her a little more, and she was in heaven...