One hundred copies apiece were hurled with sighs into Bisbee, Arizona, Red Wing, Minnesota, and Atlanta, Georgia.
But the throw of the dice sealed their lips, as they were hurled with furious finality into another world.
HONG KONG — The adjectives of outrage — creepy, deplorable, racist — are being hurled with more than a little force in Asia after an American political ad was shown featuring an Asian woman speaking deliberately broken English.
As the snivelling Scotsman's CD was flashed across the screen, the words Christmas, Number and One were hurled with such ferocity and repetition that I felt myself being brainwashed and had to pull away.
If Jim Murphy is to win in a fashion convincing enough to give him real authority over Scottish Labour he must deal with the charges against him that are already being hurled with vigour both by Nationalists and some of the Labour left.
As the saga has unfolded, Downing Street and its newspaper foes ignored Denis Healey's advice that, when in a hole, they should stop digging as insults and allegations were hurled, with Labour chairman Charles Clarke on Wednesday declaring war on a "pious" press.
The crowd's frustration appeared in the form of open, spraying water bottles, which were hurled with increasingly intensity towards the roof-kids.
We are hurled, with a rude but fitting lack of ceremony, into a smorgasbord of R-rated horror and fantasy conventions, replete with weird detours into Arthurian legend, Mayan mythology and Slavic folklore, and rendered in the director's preferred visual idiom of disemboweled corpses and beautifully art-directed entrails.
As people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent know from painful experience, this slur is hurled at them with no regard to national origin or whether a person had the remotest connection to the Vietnam War.
A doggedly upbeat bunch and, tellingly, a young one Conservative activists in the city report that Lady Thatcher's legacy is hurled across doorsteps with a "barrage of hatred".And some of the forces behind fission have strengthened since the 1980s.
