Word: threw
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...didn't really feel the impact of being a Harvard/Radcliffe woman. I sort of threw off my shell. I was just a woman, a black woman...
Sloppiness, due in part to the weather, slowed down both teams. Each team fumbled four times. Menick lost two fumbles, and another came when the snap back to the punter hit one of the upmen. Sophomore quarterback Rich Linden threw two interceptions in Princeton territory in the second quarter to end scoring threats, the second one being a great diving catch at the goalline by Princeton safety Ryan Demler...
...State inspectors recommended a $24,000 fine, but the nursing home appealed, saying the wriggling larvae didn't constitute evidence of poor care. Besides, the nursing home argued, maggots are good for eating away dead tissue inside a wound. The state hearing officer agreed with the nursing home and threw out the fine...
Brown provided a good deal of that heart, winning Games 1 and 6 and battling a stomach flu in between. With a 4-run lead after six innings of the eventual clincher, Florida manager Jim Leyland tried to take the weakened Brown out of the game, but the pitcher threw a respectful fit, and Leyland acquiesced. Even when the tying run came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, Leyland kept him in there, feeling Brown deserved to be on the field when the final out was made. When Chipper Jones hit into a force for that...
...evidence points to a drifter named Ottis Elwood Toole as his son's murderer. In one confession, Toole said he decapitated Adam with a machete and placed the head on the floor of his white Cadillac, which he then drove to a secluded spot off the Florida turnpike. He threw the head off a small bridge. Walsh asserts he even took police investigators to the location. Toole, however, stopped cooperating when, Walsh writes, the police became verbally abusive; he recanted. It might have been possible to run DNA tests to determine whether the blood in Toole's Cadillac was Adam...