Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circle of contemporary feminist writers. Her twelve previous novels feature a number of heroines unsettlingly prone to confirming male stereotypes about the opposite sex. These females gossip, backbite, succumb regularly to the rhythmic fluctuations of their metabolisms. Having achieved some measure of independence or success, they are likely to throw everything over for some handsome rotter or an insincere promise of love and security. Starlady Sandra knows that her new passion will demand the suppression of her lively intelligence: "If only I can hold my tongue I might yet be the one he keeps in his bed, for ever. Craven...
...slipped. "America is scared to death of not being No. 1 any longer," says a foreign banker in Japan. Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks of the "diminished-giant syndrome." A committed free trader, Bhagwati warns that the impulse of declining empires is to throw around their diluted power with such potentially self-damaging measures as trade barriers...
...tank production is so high when they already have such a superiority relative to the allies. Recall too that this increase in tank production is occurring when Gorbachev says he's cutting military expenditures in order to deal with domestic needs. Taken alone, this evidence could compel you to throw up your hands, say Gorbachev isn't serious and walk away. But it is possible that Gorbachev has simply changed so many variables already, like retiring the old marshals and permitting civilian think tanks to comment on military strategy, that production is an area he simply hasn't got around...
...pedestrians peek in through sidewalk windows. Allowing the Rose, the only Elizabethan theater ever discovered, to disappear once again sounds like the stuff of a Shakespearean tragedy. "Replicas of Elizabethan theaters are being built everywhere," observes actor Ian McKellen, "but this is the real thing, and you don't throw away the real thing...
...today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it." Real-life flashback: when Ford was about young Indy's age, he entered a junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would gather to watch this display. I don't know why they did it. Maybe because I wouldn't fight the way they wanted me to fight. They wanted a fight...