Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theybrought me to a discount store, a French Filene'sBasement, if you can stretch your imagination. Itwas called Tatou and its bags were a trademarkpink-and-white gingham check pattern. I rememberbecause as we approached the store the streetswere littered with these begs. People would buysomething, leave the store, throw out their bagand put the merchandise into a backpack or anotherplastic bag. They weren't pound of their bargains.They were almost ashamed. I still shudder to thinkof it. They didn't want anyone to know they hadjust gotten a bargain...
...similar works by less talented writers is their refusal to oversimplify or offer easy prescriptions for the underclass dilemma. As McCall acknowledges, "My background and those of my running partners don't fit all the convenient theories, and the problems among us are more complex than something we can throw jobs, social programs or more policemen at." That maddening complexity, these two powerful books make clear, keeps it nearly as difficult for young blacks to free themselves from bondage today as it was in Douglass's time...
...Throw in a cheesy paper airplane-throwing contest at halftime, and you see why Brown isn't exactly the cradle of college basketball...
...Crimson tried to come back behind some of the best defense the team has played all season. The Bears were held to two points in the last 6:07, both of which came from the free-throw line...
Peacetime spying useful only as a murky undercurrent, which if more common would throw international affairs into a worse turmoil than if spying didn't exit at all. The keen moral disapprobation we feel for the individual spy is a key rule of the game. And, aside from that, Ames' leaks led to the executions of at least eight...