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“I saw my fellow students being pushed, shoved, and thrown down stairs by police,” Jones said of the police crackdown.

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The song of submission rang out over the market where the Mussalmans had already found a quiet alley and thrown down their mats for noonday prayers.

Far too often I’ve come across a rentable scooter that has been thrown down and discarded haphazardly after use.

“The plane, unannounced, just dropped. I mean it dropped unlike anything I’ve ever experienced on any kind of minor turbulence, and people were thrown out of their seats, hit the top of the roof of the plane, thrown down the aisles,” passenger Brian Jokat told ABC news in Australia on Tuesday.

Despite his family paying a ransom for his release, he was taken to a nearby wooded area and thrown down a 250-foot cliff.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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