Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...information superhighway does its best to run in a straight line. A search for the word "hockey," will yield "puck.com"; searching for "weather" produces copious charts and myriad maps. Predictable. But throw a loaded word like "noir" into the query box, and suddenly this so-called super-highway has more twists and curves than the line for Space Mountain. "Noir" is certainly one of the most frequently used and misused terms in scholastic, artistic, and intellectual circles, and the Web proves no exception; a search turned up 1,664 sites that use the word in one capacity or another...
...Coach Walsh says I've got the most unorthodox motion he's ever seen," Birtwell said. "But he says as long as I keep pitching like this I can throw however I want...
...though, in retrospect, I would have done it for free, and I still would. Where else can you get a front-row view of an 11-year-old first baseman wearing futuristic sunglasses, blowing a bubble, winking at a girl he wishes was his girlfriend and dropping a hard throw from the shortstop all at the same time...
...also learned not to confuse the drama of a close call with any sense of urgency. Too often, a young umpire will try to make a call before a play has developed, assuming a sequence of action that eventually fails to unfold. The runner may beat the throw, but will he touch the base? The fielder may coax the ball into his mitt, but will it stay there? The ball may beat the runner, but does...
...being a latchkey child, are right in the home. There they can easily act on any kid who believes that "the world has wronged me"--a sentiment spoken from the darkest part of the human heart. And no place in America is more than a stone's throw from there...