Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence. The best parts of the book are about just that. Some anecdotes are buried in Cowan's tortured prose. He describes one scene in "Born Innocent," the show about a girl's reform school. Linda Blair is thrown to the floor of the shower room and "raped" with the long wooden handle of a Jonny mop. (At a screening for NBC executives, one was so pleased that he murmured, "This is great stuff.") The network executives changed their minds a month later after a nine-year-old girl was raped with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach...
...bishops has been no easy achievement. Often, says Bishop Anibal Maricevich Fleitas of Concepcidn, Paraguay, the comunidades have seemed a threat to more traditional Catholics because they want the bishops to be "brothers and servants of the poor." This stance, he adds, also makes them "like pepper thrown in the eyes of the government." In fact, scores or perhaps hundreds of comunidad leaders, both priests and laymen, have been imprisoned, tortured and even killed because of their "conscientization," awakening a sense of grievance, among poor people...
...anyone had told me Gary would be third in the Heps at the beginning of the year. I would locked him up and thrown the key away," McCurdy said...
...still have two more starts," Brown said. "Hell, if l finish those two games off well. I wouldn't regret one pitch I've thrown this year...
...victim's neck and slowly strangle him. The coup de gráce was a sledgehammer blow to the chest. It took about ten minutes to kill each prisoner. The bodies were piled in trucks and driven north for five hours to the Karuma Falls to be thrown to the crocodiles. Whenever a white was killed- Kisuule-Minge recalls about 50 such cases-Amin had the ears delivered to him on a platter. Kisuule-Minge remembers five Germans-three men and two women-being brought to the center. They were tied up, beaten and garroted and their bodies thrown...