Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afraid that at age 15 people would know him as 'the kid,'" she says. "He didn't want to throw that block in front...
...second time in as many years, the Harvard women's basketball team came up with big buckets when it needed them against New Hampshire. A career-high 32 points by junior Alison Feaster and clutch free throw shooting down the stretch helped the Crimson to a 74-69 win over the Wildcats in Durham...
...foreign policy makers. She taught international relations at Georgetown, where students voted her the most popular professor four years in a row. In 1984 she pitched in as Veep candidate Geraldine Ferraro's foreign policy adviser. "She was the perfect teacher," says Ferraro. "We'd discuss arms control, missile throw weight, geopolitics, you name it. I'd make a tape of the briefings and listen to them again when I was in the bathtub at night...
...this area the faithful seem to be leading their churches, instead of following, opening an unusually lively colloquy. It is the nature of computer networks that they tend to throw together people who would otherwise never meet--never mind discuss something as intimate as one's personal beliefs. Thus on the Internet, Catholics suddenly find themselves keyboard-to-keyboard with devil worshippers, Jews modem-to-modem with Islamic fundamentalists. "I put the [Reverend Moon's] Unification Church right up there with the wonderful world of Mormon," someone with the screen name Marzioli posted recently on a Usenet newsgroup. The next...
...victory symbolized much more. Three years ago, Brown went to Texas although many people advised him to go elsewhere. They'll never play a black quarterback there, especially one who ran the option in high school, the doubters said. But he remained confident in his abilities--"I can throw the ball and will be the starter," he said...