• Over the years, however, the competition has evolved to include more sophisticated methods of hurling baked goods.

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  • Why do foreigners want to join in the great British sport of hurling wads of fivers down this particular black hole?

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  • "As a result of hurling the rock, the front windscreen of the vehicle in which the father and son were travelling was smashed and Asher Palmer was hit, " a statement from the military prosecutor reads.

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  • Rice was fired after a video of him hurling basketballs and homophobic slurs at players became public.

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  • Following November's 2-1 defeat, Leeds fans pulled up dozens of seats hurling them from the stand and flares were launched into the crowd.

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  • Any nation willing to send the products of the best minds of a generation and a significant portion of its GNP hurling into space to blast a ball of ice three miles across will be treated very carefully by its neighbours.

    ECONOMIST: Stop that comet

  • After an hour or so of this Punch-and-Judy show, with its noisy drinking, hurling of kitchen items, partings, and reconciliations, you may want to knock both lovers flat with an enormous chili pepper.

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  • The bane of law-and-order fanatics, their misbehavior blasts through barriers of money and power even when those partitions cannot literally be breached: On the concrete wall built by Israeli security to blockade the Palestinian territory, Banksy has illicitly stenciled pictures of small girls frisking armed soldiers, and masked insurgents hurling bouquets of flowers.

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  • It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.

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  • Gangs of young men hurling missiles and occasionally shooting from rooftops in both directions pour into the streets as night falls.

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  • And he plans to create America's first museum of cricket and hurling.

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  • Running, jumping, all of a sudden hurling herself at the water.

    NEWYORKER: Gravel

  • Plenty of Molotov-hurling leftists also took Mr. Zelaya's side.

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  • Daithi McKay of Sinn Fein wanted to see more GAA tourism, noting that the North currently had some of the best hurling teams in the world, including the new all-Ireland club champions, Loughgiel Shamrocks.

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  • Famous for an annual wife-carrying competition, for regular success at the world air-guitar championship and record-breaking hurling of rubber boots and mobile phones, Finland can now claim another accolade: its citizens are reportedly the world's keenest pranksters.

    ECONOMIST: Finland leads the world in weird sports and pranks

  • Mr Vann uses two sequences to transform what could be another routine tale of small-town life, hurling the book into the outer darkness of the heart.

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  • The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month, hurling a plume of ash 11km (seven miles) into the atmosphere.

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  • The writer-director Randall Wallace stages much of the combat at very close range, with masses of North Vietnamese infantry hurling themselves against American riflemen.

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  • Obama and the Republicans have kept hurling accusations of bad faith at one another until the automatic budget cuts that both sides once deemed unthinkable loomed.

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  • This pattern was repeated throughout the ancient world, for example, pitting Chinese against the peoples of the Steppes, hurling German and Hunnish barbarian races against the Romans, and in countless upheavals throughout Meso-America.

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  • As long as it's engaged in light-hurling bouts of force, or motorcycle chases through a landscape so ominously enveloping it looks like "Blade Runner" after gentrification, "TRON: Legacy" is a catchy popcorn pleasure.

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  • Even before Mr Cunningham made his unexpected announcement Welsh farmers, hit by falling beef prices and the continuing European Union ban on British beef exports, had been blockading ports and hurling imports of Irish beef into the sea.

    ECONOMIST: Mad cows

  • Video of the incident showed rioters hurling glass bottles and other debris at security teams in Haren, which is located 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Amsterdam and is home to about 20, 000 residents.

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  • Banish any images of rock legend: forget about dissipated drummers slumped in a junkie haze in some stadium locker room, forget roadies hurling televisions and empty bottles of Jack Daniels from hotel balconies into the pool.

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  • Three years ago a male northern cardinal, or Cardinalis cardinalis, began hurling himself against the windows of our solar home.

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  • Suddenly, in the middle of the departing crowd, people began hurling stones at stores near the school, before attacking.

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  • Like the Giants, the Niners practice that quaint, old-fashioned NFL technique of stopping the ball in addition to hurling it as fast as possible down the field.

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  • Rutgers announced Jordan's hiring on April 23, less than three weeks after it fired coach Mike Rice after a compilation of video footage from practices showed Rice hurling basketballs and homophobic slurs at players.

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  • As a young man Jack Lynch (he was never John) gained fame in his native Cork in Gaelic football, in which players can use their hands as well as their feet, and in hurling, an Irish form of hockey.

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  • The meeting came a day after the Police Service of Northern Ireland said its officers deployed water cannons and fired plastic bullets Saturday night at a crowd of more than 100 demonstrators who were hurling fireworks and bricks at them.

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