Word: throwing
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Reinhard's throw missed the first baseman's glove, and the Brown runner who had advanced to third on the hit took the overthrow opportunity to score. And that was that...
...focus is more on fiscal responsibility. There's a philosophy that government has to do all things for all people," he said, adding, "Everyone thinks if you throw money at a problem it will go away...
...Throw in the fact that Harvard will be missing junior starter Bob Jordan (leg injury) and probably Rose as well, and the difficulty of the challenge becomes clear. Of course, Harvard rugby wouldn't be Harvard rugby if it didn't accept the test head...
...most of Burke's work. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Hyperion; 344 pages; $19.95) is haunted by not one but two ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips as Robicheaux's adopted Salvadoran daughter and pet three-legged raccoon, named Tripod, and one has a gumbo to clog any narrative. It doesn't, because Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his region...
...definitely disconcerting seeing a man throw around a Bible and hymn books," Fauntroy said. "It was something extremely out of the ordinary...