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...even more squirrely during his long retirement. In the 1990s, taking his last laps as a handshaker, autograph signer and first-ball thrower, he demanded to be introduced as "baseball's greatest living ballplayer." He insisted on first-class transcontinental airfare even if he was only taking a cab from across town...
...more recent example: in 1996 the whole world east of Dublin and west of the Shannon doubted that Irish swimmer Michelle Smith was clean, as a hulking version of her prior self had lowered her times astonishingly. Her success coincided with her marriage to a former discus thrower from the Netherlands who had been kicked out of his own sport as a drug cheat. But Smith won four medals in Atlanta, three of them gold, while passing all her exams. She then dodged random testing for two years before being confronted one dawn at her County Kilkenny home. She reluctantly...
...Assuming the U.S.O.C. is correct, we might ask, in the interest of Olympic glory, "What do you mean, our guys aren't taking drugs?" Chemistry long ago supplanted Wheaties as the breakfast of champions among elite athletes. Recently an Olympic discus thrower from Australia, Werner Reiterer, who admitted to spending about $12,000 a year on steroids and human-growth hormones during his career, said a majority of Australian athletes used performance enhancers and were encouraged to do so by Olympic officials. In Cuba, track officials refused to suspend world record-holding high jumper Javier Sotomayor after he tested positive...
...street game called ballon chasseur, or hunting ball, was catching fire in Lebanon. The game consisted of two teams of six in which one team player would throw a ball at a member of the other team. If the recipient caught the ball without dropping it, the ball thrower ended up a prisoner of the other team. But if the ball hit a rival team member and was not caught, the unlucky fellow ended up a prisoner of the ball-throwing team...
...Daniel Auteuil) is a carnival knife thrower down on his luck. She (Vanessa Paradis, a.k.a. Mrs. Johnny Depp) is a waif who has permitted too many penetrations of a seemingly less lethal sort. And here they are, strangers on a bridge, contemplating suicide. She takes the plunge. He rescues her. Miraculously, their luck changes. And then, not so miraculously, changes again. This is a tangy frappe of a movie--preposterously comic, deliriously romantic, outrageously stylish in black-and-white. But in its cockeyed way it has some interesting things to say about the waywardness of chance and, in one weird...