Word: throwing
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...happy chance, warthogs and meerkats also make neat zoo animals. Unlike most desert creatures, including lions, both are busy during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City...
...when two married executives at ABC have an affair and one gets promoted to president of ABC News, while Lieut. Flinn, who had an affair with a civilian she initially didn't know was married, faced dishonorable discharge and 9 1/2 years in prison. Does it make sense to throw 65,000 young women together with several hundred thousand males, under immense stress, boredom and loneliness--then also raise the bar on sexual misconduct far above where it is in society in general...
Junior second baseman Bryan Price led off the inning with a hot shot to deep short. Forst dove to his right and stopped the ball but was unable to muster a throw. Forst stayed on the ground for several anxious minutes holding his shoulder, which was surgically repaired two years...
...Everyone had [Princeton] in the back of their minds, but there was no way I was going to let it happen again," Jamieson said. "All I really needed to do was throw strikes...
When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species--that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting an all sorts of facts which could possibly...