He hurls words instead of javelins.
With his deep, passionate voice and wildly waving arms, he would teach the children of Jenin to hurl words and music at the occupiers until they overcame them, and the armoured cars trundled back across the Green Line.
The blithe tone in which Ms. Morris depicts her mother relating this information doesn't falter even when Beverly tells of the fights that began to erupt, when she would call him a drunk, and he would hurl words like "cheap Jew" at her. "And I would say, 'Cheap Jew-ess!' " she adds with a laugh.
Standing in the courtyard of the golden-domed Shrine of Ali on Friday, staring at 2,500 worshipers seated on rugs, the imam, Sadr al-Din al-Kubanchi, hurled words as sharp as scimitars at the army that had invaded this holy city.
"Because tyranny cannot tolerate armed citizens," the ad copy reads, "the brave young Chinese could only hurl words and hold out empty hands against an army".
During a session at Peekskill Middle School, the girls described adjectives for strong women, hurling out words like "powerful," "athletic," "original" and "proud," before reading aloud a chapter from Phyllis Chesler's book "Letters to a Young Feminist," with their Marymount mentors.
The stands had emptied at predictable speed after late goals from Aleksandar Kolarov and Adem Ljajic had shattered Albania dream of securing qualification for Euro 2016 with a victory over arch-rivals Serbia, few home supporters concerning themselves with hurling choice words – or objects – at their vanquishers.
When the nasty little voice in your head is hurling unkind words at you, it's impossible to simultaneously trust yourself.
Soprano Marie Arnet started alone, hurling the word "Nyet" into the auditorium; in a tireless, gleaming narration lasting almost an hour, Arnet was the voice of Anna Akhmatova, bearing witness to the horrors of Stalin's Russia.
