Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After trying to comfort the woman on the phone, Smith began calling elsewhere to get help, then went to visit the charred wreckage of the house. Somebody had thrown a whiskey bottle full of gasoline into the living room. Another bottle landed in the tiny bedroom where the nine-year-old girl and six-year-old boy lay sleeping with others. One of them was splashed from head to foot. "Her panties were burned into her flesh," said their aunt, Nomsameli Molefe, her own burned arm in a bandage. "The other child caught it mostly in the face...
...wielding assailants is not among them. A teacher in the Bronx was stabbed more than a dozen times by a mugger in an elementary school bathroom last month; another was savagely beaten with a bat after confronting a playground intruder; a third was badly injured by a powerful firecracker thrown into her classroom; a fourth was slugged by a student who objected to being asked to put out his cigarette...
ARENA, by contrast, has thrown its support behind Alfredo Cristiani, 42, the U.S.-educated scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. A poll released last week by the University of Central America indicated that, as of now, Cristiani would defeat any other presidential candidate by at least 10 percentage points. That would amount to a repudiation of the Duarte record on at least two counts: Cristiani has said that he would return to private hands export industries run by the Duarte administration as state enterprises, and that he would roll back a land-reform program that turned El Salvador...
...service has inspired a wide variety of people to join the City Year team. The program has been able to tap a pool of recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
...culture, seem wholly unrelated. The American is a sensual naif; the Anglo-Irishman is a sophisticated puritan. Twain is happy for small favors; Shaw is ungrateful for major rewards. Presented with the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shaw informs the Royal Swedish Academy that their award is a "lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." Shaw's dramas brim with advocates of free thought and liberal policy, but his correspondence reveals him as a fool of the new totalitarians. Adolf Hitler is a "wonderful preacher of everything that is right and best in Toryism...