Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They said they may also throw a party to draw attention to UNITE...
...ideological demons: a Democratic alternative to the G.O.P. welfare-reform bill. Day after day, they argued in Gephardt's office. Hispanic members threatened to walk out over provisions cutting off benefits to legal immigrants; liberals hated the idea of putting time limits on welfare benefits; conservatives wanted to throw out the federal guarantee of benefits entirely. They all lost. But when it was over, only one Democrat voted against the alternative bill. "Everybody came away dissatisfied," Gephardt boasts. "But everybody felt a compulsion to act together...
Each face carries a grudge. The men mutter and growl and get fall-down drunk. The women wheedle and whine. Or they knit furiously, like Lindsay Duncan in Grown-Ups, as if rehearsing to put her unloving husband's eyes out. Or they throw insults like darts. "Drop dead!" shouts the pretentious Beverly (Steadman) at her husband in Abigail's Party (1977); two minutes later, he does. The hate-filled wife in Home Sweet Home is an adulterer, but infidelity with her husband's best friend gives the woman no more pleasure than anything else in her sorry life. There...
...leave town to get an early start on campaigning have been held up by disputes over two smaller funding measures. One is a $19 billion bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration that Democrats say would make it easier for Federal Express to stop its truck drivers from unionizing. Throw in minor disputes about funding for national parks, and Senators may have to put off their flights for another day. -->