Word: thrown
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Mleczko put up a game fight at number one but found herself thrown off her game by tough Bruin Adrienne Murphy...
...reviewer apparently expected a movie version of a gay pride rally, with a hot bedroom scene thrown in for it to qualify as a "strong gay liberation statement...
With the new 3-4 defense choking off the long run and seamless zone defenses in the secondary denying all but the perfectly thrown pass, the big play is often the game-breaker in the N.F.L. this season. Often that play comes from the little men, especially on kickoff and punt returns. Many teams carry a diminutive run-back specialist on their rosters. As fearless as they are frail-looking, they await the ball amid the growing thunder of approaching tacklers. Momentarily obscured by a wall of blockers, they duck toward the sidelines in a suicidal dash toward glory. Johnson...
...advantages of the Crimson novelty, Kleinfelder said there is a drawback in that the team has to adjust to itself. "In asking for a pass, a player is used to having it come from the right side; but with all the lefties, the passes will be thrown from the other side," she said. This difficulty will be especially evident when the women throw around a defender because the pass will come around the left side of the opponent rather than the right side...
...commotion. It may be worth mentioning, however, that Pryor's characterizations have nothing to do with the cool black humor of such modern comics as Bill Cosby and the late Godfrey Cambridge. He plays eye-rolling, foot-shuffling, minstrel-show darkies, with a bit of ghetto fast-mouth thrown in. On the other hand, the audience in which this reviewer sat was 90% black, and everyone seemed to be having a great time...