Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospect, I overreacted. When the Cedar Rapids Kernels offered to let me throw out a first pitch, I shouldn't have run by the editors' offices yelling "I bet your precious Calvin Trillin has never thrown out a first pitch!" I called my new favorite minor-league team immediately and accepted, drunk on my own power and assuming Cedar Rapids wasn't really far away. It is. From anywhere...
WINNER: Baldwin, because he looks like he can throw his weight around
...REAL SKINNY Eating disorders may be serious, but they are not incurable. A seven-year study of women ages 15 to 34 finds that 74% of bulimics (who binge on food and then throw up) eventually stop the behavior altogether, and 99% curtail it somewhat. Anorexics (who basically starve themselves) can get better too, though fewer do. About a third fully recover, and 83% begin eating enough to put at least some pounds back...
...course, the best way to silence a noisy presidential underdog is to throw him a bone. George W. Bush has ventured far enough out of smile-and-wave mode to make some noises along McConnell's line ? make a CPI adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins...
Apart from the Harvard-Yale charade, to see whose tailgate can get more champagne and more erudite people and big bucks, I actually can't remember any Harvard rivalry--no matter how many fish you throw at me. In fact, there must be some sort of Kafkaesque element to showing up to play a road game to fans eagerly throwing trout and speaking of a great rivalry you can't quite recall...