Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting goalie is still a three-way toss-up, but tradition would indicate the captain, Jack Lavalle...
...forwards from each team are clustered in a tight, throbbing circle, trying to heel out the ball to the backs behind them, rugby resembles neither football nor soccer, although the pigskin itself is a compromise between the two. Add to all this running, passing, tackling but no blocking, and toss-outs from the sidelines and you have that strange hodge-page of field sports which is rugby, the ancestor of those same better-known American games...
...both relays, and scored heavily in every other event except the dash and 35-pound weight throw. In the latter event, Sam Felton, who placed second in the Nationals Saturday, hit 56 feet, 9 1/2 inches. This would have won the Nationals, where Felton's best effort was a toss of 54 feet...
When Brazil's Congress voted last month to toss the Communists out of all legislative offices, most party members got tossed. One who did not was wiry, red-headed Pedro Pomar. Reason: Pomar, though a Commie, had been elected on the government party's ticket...
...back of a monstrous frog whose every muscle twitch causes a temblor. Natives of Mozambique logically decided that their quake of 1891 was just a case of global chills & fever. Scientists now believe that the earth's crust is a mosaic of big, loose blocks that roll and toss every time they are jarred out of line. San Francisco is close to a "fault" between two such blocks. But most earthquakes are relatively harmless: the earth has at least 50,000 a year, which keep seismographs constantly jittery...