Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more intellectually-minded, with a generous dollop of cynical elitism thrown in, counter that the media is bound by a higher responsibility. Don't cater to the whims of the beer-swilling couch potatoes, they say. Let's ignore those natty Nielsen viewership surveys and give the public some healthy programming...
Will it ever wake up one day and say to itself, "We will not say anything about the Red Sox being a sure lock for the American League East pennant until the last pitch of the last baseball game of the regular sesaon is thrown. We will keep quiet until then...
...proposition: will the city of Boston please keep quiet until the last pitch of the series is thrown? No mention of the magic number, no mention of trying to make the Series again to face the hated Mets...
...from an ardent supporter of the free press to call for obstacles to be thrown in our path. But, frankly, from the perspective of a college student writer, the recent microscrutiny of vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle's achievements in youth was enough to instill trepidation into the heart of any young person...
...They've thrown the book at them, almost every violation of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act," said Edward Brodsky, a Wall Street lawyer and former U.S. Attorney. Potentially the most devastating charge was the accusation that Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. investment firm (1987 revenues: $3.2 billion), had cheated some of its important customers. Said Brodsky: "That is raw stuff...