Word: throw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opponents of the resolution said that $35,000 was too much money to gamble on such a proposition. "If we're going to throw around money like this, we might as well play the stock market," Finance Committee Chair David A. Battat '91 said of the original proposal to allot $50,000 for a concert...
...example is classic. Feldstein's point was not that he likes unemployment but that it was neccessary to throw a few hundred thousand more economically marginal Americans into the face of poverty in order to provide for the financial security of tenured professors and the rest of the bond-holding class...
...could not defend this on First Amendment grounds," he told the Union-News in Springfield. "I could not defend giving...of taxpayers' money for two kids to throw spitballs. They started off trying to be the New York Times and became the National Enquirer...
Some families may not want to have two members undergo major surgery at once. But for the Smiths, the risk was well worth the possible returns. Says Teresa: "Once you've given someone a big piece of your heart, it's easy to throw in a little bit of liver...
...good material as he mumbles. Thus the new show: recycled mugger-repellent. What kind of new show? Some comedy, centered more in the present than the nostalgic P.H.C. was, he said a few days before the first broadcast. But mostly "fine, classic American music; music to make people throw babies in the air." Tunes for the old show, which he closed with a teary farewell broadcast in June 1987 (tearier second and third farewells followed, and a fourth is plotted for next June), tended to be guitar-based bluegrass and country, not counting the occasional trombone choir playing Lapland milking...