Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Florida isn't used to infernos of this size and duration. When the ravaged counties petitioned Governor Lawton Chiles for more help last week, he could only throw up his hands. The state's resources, he said, were already committed, including every helicopter and every bulldozer. Furthermore, 4,000 fire fighters from 41 states, National Guard troops and even the U.S. Marines had joined the battle. "Florida's never seen fires like this before," said Chiles. "We're having 90 to 100 new fires...
They do not call it a game of throw, though throwing is half the equation. The name of the game puts the burden on the one who receives, but there is really no game to it. Nobody wins or loses. You drop the ball; you pick it up. Once you've got the basics down, it doesn't matter if you bobble a ball or two, or if you can't peg it as far as you once could, or if you have to stare and squint to pick...
...loathe the leaden drag in my arm, the lack of steam in my throw. Live, I look like a slo-mo replay. But I can still reach...
...again. We go back and forth in an essential gesture of sports. A ball travels between two people, each seeking a moment of understanding from the other, across the yard and the years. To play a game of catch is not like pitching to a batter. You do not throw to trick, confuse or evade; you want to be understood...
...same time, the narratives in wrestling have become more complicated than Icelandic epics. The plots involve different factions of wrestlers in each organization who are trying to dominate the others, amid constant betrayals. "We're storytellers," says Vince McMahon, owner of the WWF. "You can't just throw wrestlers out there to wrestle. That's not what an audience wants...