Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Captain Bill Doyle took home a silver with a 192-foot toss in the hammer throw and freshman Darin Shearer took third place in the 3000-meter steeplechase with the third-fastest Harvard time ever...
...could have been. Reeling with a hangover, he sits at a table to take an aspirin. His fluttering hands drop it to the floor with an audible click, but he doesn't notice. He just fingers empty air into his mouth, sips water and swallows with a perfectly timed toss of his head and palpitation in his throat. Alas, one swallow does not a bummer unmake...
...breathless seconds, you are just 19 ft. 9 in. away from a million dollars. You're standing on the basketball court in the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, and all you have to do is toss the ball through the 18-in. hoop that now seems a mile off. The crowd of 6,600 is chanting your name. Your wife's counting on you, thinking about a little red sports car. Your son, the Nintendo addict, wants a new computer. You'd love some cash for your daughter's college education and to buy a tractor for yourself. And maybe...
...humanities and social sciences, for example, many large lecture classes still use midterms and finals as their basic requirements. Some toss in an undefined term-paper at the end. The Core office mandates its professors give, at minimum, a midterm and a final. This inertia continues despite what education scholars have long recommended: The most effective teaching and learning occurs through constant writing and revision...
...trace into the chaotic, inflationary maw the economy has become -- if not into foreign bank accounts in a vast capital flight reaching between $10 billion and $30 billion a year. The Russian economy "is like a large and deep pool of mud," says a senior British diplomat. "You can toss in anything you like, and it just sinks to the bottom...