Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...
Oilmen wondered if Getty would now toss Bill Skelly out of the presidency of the company he had founded. Skelly had some ideas of his own: he threatened to bring another suit, aimed to throw Mission Corp. into liquidation and divide its holdings, including Skelly Oil, among its stockholders...
...official opener of the '47-'48 season, the varsity swimming squad tests the M.I.T. natators in the Tech pool tonight. Despite the Engineers one-win, two-loss record for this year, the meet is considered a toss...
Barclay has four veteran guards, Steve Davis, Bill Henry, Bill Brady, and Chip Gannon--all of practically equal ability. While it's a toss-up between the first three to see who starts against the Engineers, Barclay figures it will take time to round Gannon's football knees into shape...
...news was ominous for lesser comics of the Morgan school: all the brash, postwar lads whose specialty is making fun of radio and its sponsors. Things looked far from bright for three of the most prominent members of the toss-it-away brand of comedy: 1) come January, the American Tobacco Co. will reportedly drop Jack Paar (TIME, Sept. 29); 2) Funnyman Robert Q. Lewis (TIME, June 23) is still a liability to CBS, with no sponsor after nearly seven months on the air as a sustainer; 3) Alan Young, the Canadian wit, after starring for over two years...