Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condition of House storage is that all unclaimed boxes and items become College property after seven days following registration. The College can then decide if it wants to use, sell or throw out the left-overs physics notes and lampshades...
...bathroom a few weeks ago. It has yet to emerge. And while some have been dealing with the possible end of our current good-times era by talking their Wall Street buddies down from the window ledges, or by convincing Mom & Dad that it wasn't so bad to throw a big lump of cash into the stock market the day before the slide began, and would they please shut off the Mercedes and come out of the garage, I have taken a different mindset. I have been busy contemplating the social fallout from the demise of the present boom...
...this one. Democrats are holding themselves aloof from him or worse, some newspapers are already calling for his resignation, and the rough beast of public opinion is slouching toward Washington, however slowly. For all those reasons, no one can rule out the possibility that he might just decide to throw up his hands and go. But everything in his past insists otherwise. In much of his political life, whether it involved welfare reform, tax cutting or health care, Clinton has been famously open to compromise and tactical retreat. Where he gets single-minded, however, is in matters involving his survival...
...plump, but I'm confused about why it's all right for the Chinese to do that sort of thing and still be our pals. See how complicated it is? Sometimes I find myself wondering what they did with the Iron Curtain after the cold war ended. Did they throw it out? Or is it just in a basement somewhere with a lot of large busts of Lenin, ready to be put back if everyone misses it too much...
...tough, decisive realist who welded together the alliance that successfully contained the Soviet bloc until it self-destructed in 1989. Acheson handsomely reproduces the postwar era, the rich supporting cast and a sometimes surprising protagonist who, for all his bespoke elegance and fop's mustache, knew how, occasionally, to throw a punch and how to function otherwise in a dangerous world...