Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monti followed the senior's lead, taking theoutlet pass off a missed Wofford free throw thelength of the court, dribbling behind the back asshe drove the lane and finishing a beautiful movewith a driving lay-up for the 18-point lead...
Ironically, it was a freshman who stepped upfor the Crimson in crunch time. Gates convertedtwo key lay-ups in the final 1:18 to help Harvardsurvive its own inexperience and Wofford's latecharge. Sturdy added a free throw with 11 secondsremaining to close out the scoring...
...coming months, the CIA will return to the drawing board to dream up another covert-action plan involving clandestine funds, recruitment among disgruntled military officers and stepped-up propaganda. But White House officials concede that "there's no magic pill there. You just don't run in and throw some secret things at Saddam...
...only a pistol with him when he walks in the woods; he uses it to administer the coup de grace to deer that sloppy hunters have merely wounded. For myself, I sometimes wish that hunting were catch-and-release, that, as I do when muskie fishing, I could somehow throw the deer back...
...says it needs until June 1999 to finish its work. The Volcker Commission has 500 chartered accountants combing through tons of archives at 63 banks, and those sleuths don't come cheap. The bankers are livid about the expense and time; some of the smaller banks are threatening to throw out the commission's accountants. What's more, under pressure from the federal government, the banks grudgingly waived their hallowed secrecy rules for those wartime accounts. But as the sifting proceeds, the accountants are hitting upon records of Jewish clients who are still alive and in no mood to have...