Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Firecrackers, hand grenades, bombshells: the defense team is ready to toss an arsenal of hints, suggestions and arguments into this already explosive case. While Clark was cooling off and plotting her comeback, halfway across Los Angeles County, defense lawyer Robert Shapiro was watching his 14-year- old son Brent play a hard-fought, body-checking ice hockey game--and chatting strategy. Consider the bloody socks, he says, talking fast while cheering on Brent. Investigators ``find a pair of socks'' at O.J.'s house the day after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found murdered, Shapiro explains. ``Nobody notices...
...about 15% through the 1970s, rose to 21% by 1991. "The kids eat nothing but junk food," says Liam Hennessey, a special- ed teacher from San Francisco who watches students on school trips open the lunches their parents pack for them, gobble up the Oreos and Pop-Tarts and toss out the sandwiches...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting...
When Defense Minister Pavel Grachev appeared before the Russian parliament two weeks ago, everyone expected that his visit would be the political equivalent of a burning at the stake. His numerous critics were eager to toss a branch onto the fire that seemed about to consume the career of the 46-year- old paratroop veteran of the Afghan War who was promoted to Defense Minister three years ago. As the general who oversaw the final withdrawal of his country's army from eastern Germany last August -- an exercise most Russian soldiers still find humiliating -- Grachev has become the embodiment...
...Washington state's Fifth House District, GOP neophyte George Nethercutt's nip-and-tuck bid to oust the House Speaker held steady. WillTom Foleybecome -- say it again -- the first sitting House Speaker to be dumped in 134 years?FOLEY: 45 (KXLY-TV)NETHERCUTT: 46BARRETT: A toss-up. But: "Foley's spent a great deal more money than Nethercutt, and he has at least gotten people to think a little bit about the value of being represented by the No. 1 member of Congress, instead of the No. 435 member...