Word: thrown
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Somewhat rowdily becalmed, to be sure. Duane rather absentmindedly conducts affairs with two mistresses; at the book's end, he wanders through a centennial pageant in which 60,000 eggs are thrown, many of them by Duane and Karla's eleven-year-old twins, who, he says truthfully, "seemed as uninfluenceable as wild animals." But middle age is a predicament, not a journey, and thus essentially undramatic. At the end of The Last Picture Show, Duane, who had joined the service and was headed for Korea, left his secondhand Mercury with his friend Sonny, saying, "See you in a year...
...battle been higher. After losing a crucial decision in the U.S. Supreme Court last week, Texaco faced the disastrous prospect of having to post a $10 billion bond in its epic legal fight with Pennzoil. As its stock plummeted and its credit began to dry up, the company was thrown into a financial crisis. Over the weekend, Texaco's board of directors gathered for an emergency meeting at the firm's White Plains, N.Y., headquarters. Following a marathon discussion, the directors chose a stunning course: the eighth largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales: $32.6 billion) and the third-ranking...
...Visitors to Grand Central Station, where the trains were out of sight and the zodiac was on the ceiling, could get information on any subject whatsoever -- and they did, 167,000 times a year. The glorious profligacy of the place was astounding: "Why," remarked one astonished observer, "the garbage thrown away in this city every day -- every day -- would feed the whole of Europe for a week...
Still, New Yorkers weary of the slough of dirt, drugs and despond that is contemporary Manhattan can forgive Morris her borrowed nostalgia. Why, the garbage thrown away in Europe every week wouldn't equal the trash deposited on streets of Manhattan every day. But in those days it really was, in John Cheever's phrase, "a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light . . . and when almost everybody wore...
Frank Caprio led off the inning with a single, followed by another single by Captain Mike Pakalnis one out later. Frank Morelli walked to load the bases, but it looked like Harvard would again fail to score when Caprio was thrown out at the plate on a fielder's choice...