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  • And imagine if the rock-thrower organized everyone in his project to, say, write a charter that demanded the liquidation of Dalton and its students.

    Matthew Yglesias » On Analogies 2009

  • School gossip works this way, explains Cizek: if someone throws a rock at a school window shattering it, within the hour at least 50-percent of the student body knows the name of the rock-thrower and by the end of the day, Cizek estimates, an equally high percentage of teachers and administrators will have also heard the details of the rock-throwing incident.

    Cari Shane Parven: Cheating 201 (Part III) 2010

  • School gossip works this way, explains Cizek: if someone throws a rock at a school window shattering it, within the hour at least 50-percent of the student body knows the name of the rock-thrower and by the end of the day, Cizek estimates, an equally high percentage of teachers and administrators will have also heard the details of the rock-throwing incident.

    Cheating 201 (Part III) 2010

  • School gossip works this way, explains Cizek: if someone throws a rock at a school window shattering it, within the hour at least 50-percent of the student body knows the name of the rock-thrower and by the end of the day, Cizek estimates, an equally high percentage of teachers and administrators will have also heard the details of the rock-throwing incident.

    Cari Shane: Cheating 201 (Part III) Cari Shane 2010

  • The rock-thrower would have to have had quite an arm, because Glenn Reynolds points out that Driehaus's Cincinnati office is on the 30th floor of a downtown skyscraper.

    Hot, or Not? James Taranto 2010

  • To his critics — and there are many — Stiglitz is a self-aggrandizing rock-thrower.

    The Most Misunderstood Man in America 2009

  • That your neighbor on the other side of the rock-thrower *might* have a rock and *maybe* someday he might throw it at your house?

    Pants on Fire ... Steve Perry 2007

  • Also, there was the rock-thrower—Janey, Roscoe had called her.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Also, there was the rock-thrower—Janey, Roscoe had called her.

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

  • Also, there was the rock-thrower -- Janey, Roscoe had called her.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

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