Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Celtics? Throw me in at point guard for the good guys and the Knicks would still win. With the fans rocking and screaming and swearing and bunching like they do at the Garden (Madison Square, of course), it wouldn't even be close...
...would show up at may cousin Lisa's wedding ceremony and when the minister asks that anyone who objects 'speak now or forever hold your peace', I would take up his offer and speak out against the heterosexist, patriarchal, bourgeois nature of the marriage institution. Perhaps I would throw in a few Crucifixion jokes just to lighten things...
...Tutsi to reassert themselves met with a vicious and murderous response. "There was bludgeoning of public opinion," argues Philip Reyntjens, professor of law and politics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. "Ethnicity does not necessarily have to give rise to violence, but one can easily manipulate ethnicity to throw people against one another...
...Trebelhorn. "We hold so many meetings that by the time we get on the field, no one knows what to think anymore," says Chicago third baseman Steve Buechele. "This game is played by instinct, not by radar guns and charts and computers and all that other crap they throw...
Scouts still say that Smith isn't throwing much harder than 85 mph, but he insists, "I'm getting it there quicker than that. And, anyway, it's not how hard you throw it, it's where you throw it." And sure enough, Smith's control has been outstanding. He refuses to deliver the ball near the center of the plate, yet Smith had allowed only one walk while striking out nine at week's end. "He's always had great control of the outside corner," says Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken, who has faced Smith in spring training for years...