Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been troubled by problems, from recalls and suits over the safety of earlier Pintos to a widely publicized shareholders' suit against himself (since thrown out of court) to a messy separation from his second wife Christina. Since an angina attack hospitalized him three years ago, Ford has aged, and has paid close attention to setting up a succession by trusted subordinates and family members...
...with spears, beheaded them, chopped people into portions, threw hand grenades into people's shelters, rounded up people and then opened fire on them." In one ham let near Lang Son, the spokesman charged, seven children were taken from their beds and chopped into pieces, which were then thrown into a courtyard. In the Ba Xat district, he said, Peking's troops raped Vietnamese women workers before sending them to China as captives...
...more magnanimous tutu would surely have thrown in one $500,000 condo and two grilled mahimahi filets. Mo is bettah! Brok'd'moutt! Thank you, Sun! -Michael Demarest...
Since it is easier to phone somebody than to look something up, the hot line may prove more of a debilitating crutch than a boon to education. But so far, the hot-line faculties report, Kansas students have not thrown their Fowlers to the winds. The service has led to more, rather than less, concern about learning usage...
...probing tools and auto owners' manuals. Some border checkpoints are even equipped with terminals to Western-made computer systems to check the record of any driver they stop. Czechoslovak guards in 1977 barred the entry of an American woman when the computer informed them that she had been thrown out of the Soviet Union two years before for Bible smuggling. Most people caught in the act are simply questioned for a few hours and then refused entry. The longest prison term to date was 3½ years, given by Czechoslovakia...