Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-one teen-agers in T shirts and jeans are sitting around a big, doughnut-shaped table. They are all sneaking glances at the short, plump, balding man seated in their midst. "He's awfully old," whispers Stacie Stockman, with a toss of her head. "I was hoping for someone younger. I would like to think we could change his mind." Schoolmate James Perkins nods knowingly: "Yeah, his ideas are probably set in concrete...
...shells in their bare hands and blowing tanks out of their path with about as much breath power as an ordinary mortal uses to douse a candle. The final confrontation with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits...
...motorcycle toss a bomb at an army staff car and speed away through the streets of Madrid: three people are killed in the blast, and a fourth, Lieut. General Joaquin Valenzuela, head of King Juan Carlos' personal guard, is badly wounded. Another high-ranking officer, General Andrés González de Suso, is gunned down at pointblank range outside his apartment in the capital, and a policeman dies in the ensuing chase. Almost simultaneously, two Civil Guards are murdered by terrorists in a Barcelona bar. The final toll: seven dead and 14 injured, most of them innocent...
...swamps of the hammer throw, Dubliner Colin Ball closed out his Harvard career with a victory toss of 186 ft. 3 1/2 in. Alec Quintero supported him with a 164-ft. 7-in. throw to pick up second. In the shotput, senior Allen Strehler got a second place with a distance of 47 ft. 5 1/4 in., his last Crimson throw before turning in his jersey. And teammate Lanny Tron completed the picture, winning the event with an incredible 49-ft. 5 3/4-in. effort...
...field events, Dave Randall continued to reach for pole vault heaven, winning at 14 feet, while Garth Andrade grabbed another first in the javelin with a toss of 197 feet, 7 inches. And in the steeplechase, which combines lots of track and a little swimming. Bruce Weber fought a tough early stretch to run his second fastest time of the year, winning...