Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were discovered at six, still unable to speak English. They had an apparent vocabulary of hundreds of exotic words stuck together in Rube Goldberg sentence structures and salted with strange half-English and half-German phrases. The preposition out became an active verb: "I out the pudatoo-ta" (I throw out the potato salad). Potato could be said in 30 different ways. Linguists, speech pathologists and educators hoped the twins' private communication would offer a rare window into the mysteries of developing language: How is it balanced between genetically programmed neurological functions and environmental stimuli...
Protesters will throw fish from the famed Boston Tea Party ship at 12:30 p.m. today in a symbolic reenactment of the Boston Tea Party...
...BOMB THEM. Killllll THEM," they say. The student shouts at them in Italian as he mounts the curb. The drivers are disappointed. They throw a bottle at the student, who is dark and has something burning in his eyes...
Lemons was--to say the least--disenchanted with his team's play. And he had no reason to be joyous about watching highly touted freshman center LaSalle Thompson do his imitation of a 6-ft. 10-in. oak tree sprouting roots in the Celtics' free throw lane...
...were looking for the big play tonight, for staaaahl (i.e. style). Anybody can throw the little passes. Staaaahl...