Word: towel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year, who said it had taken him about 40 minutes to make it to the middle of the long line, said he felt like throwing in the towel...
...teacher, explained that he too wants the former three- term mayor back. To Britton, Barry's six-month stint in jail should not be seen as a disqualification. Far from it. "That makes it all the more a marvel," Britton said. "Marion Barry could have thrown in the towel, but he didn't. It took character to pick himself up, and this city needs that kind of character in a leader...
...insurance industry, and take employers off the hook of having to provide bill for coverage. But this morning, Congressional Budget Office Director Robert Reischauer said their numbers didn't add up. Chafee called the briefing "sobering," but added: "I certainly don't want to throw in the towel yet." TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson was less optimistic: "This could derail them...
...Gaskin's lights, President Clinton is left with three bad choices: mount a Normandy-style invasion from the shores of a reluctant Japan; use atomic weapons on Pyongyang, at the cost of countless civilian lives and the peninsula; or simply throw in the towel. Last week Gaskin defended his three- year-old prognostication: "I don't think it's changed much, except at the margins...
...looks as if the bereaved mother may have been getting away with murder. Last week the 47-year-old Berkshire, New York, housewife sat in court charged with suffocating all five of her children. Authorities accuse her of smothering three with pillows, one with a bath towel and another by pressing its face against her shoulder (the specifics are based on a confession that Hoyt has now recanted). Says District Attorney William Fitzpatrick of Onondaga, New York, who initiated the investigation of Hoyt: "We have brought to justice a killer who preyed on her own children...