Word: toss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman Hruska may have created an opportunity for the Democrats to break their lengthy losing streak. The party has selected Edward Zorinsky, mayor of Omaha, as its hope to do just that. Although Zorinsky has the backing of popular Democratic Governor J.J. Exon, the race is very much a toss-up at this point. Representative John Y. McCollister, the Republican candidate, has tried to paint Zorinsky as a liberal and tie him to the national party. But this is proving difficult because Zorinsky has campaigned as a conservative who opposes abortion and busing--though the latter is hardly a burning...
...Harvard offense, this is where the game really began. St. Burke took the helm at q.b. and got things rolling, capping an 81-yard drive with a 53-yard touchdown toss to Ron Jellison with 1:10 left in the third quarter. St. John was sacked on the ensuing extra point attempt...
There is another route. You sit around a table with people and toss out ideas. Everyone tries to "shoot down" the ideas by either pointing out logical contradictions in them or by giving examples from experience where those ideas proved wrong. The ideas not shot down remain as possibilities, but no one can be sure that these ideas will remain unrefuted forever, and so we have ideas that might be real...
...means not only blacks and whites, men and women, but also physicists, biologists, and poets Everyone. If a bunch of physicists went off by themselves and excluded chemists, they might waste a lot of time on a whole bunch of ideas that the chemists could shoot down at the toss of a hat. That's why fresh insights are often gained in "interdisciplinary research...
Says he: "The moderator could toss a coin to see who starts off and then let them go at each other." Adds Journalism Professor Edward P. Bassett of the University of Southern California: "All that's needed is an interlocutor who can keep them at each other's throat." But another panelist, New Yorker Correspondent Elizabeth Drew, disagrees. Says she: "At least we had the opportunity to inject reality. I don't think it would be too good to have Ford saying, 'Jimmy, is it true you want to increase spending...