Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm center of all this commerce is a small, dapper, pink-cheeked inheritor of the great Polish piano traditions. He can toss off a gesture with the aplomb of a Vladimir de Pachmann. (When his Manhattan visit last week was attended by a heavy snowstorm Rubinstein looked out his hotel window and shrugged. "The weather," said he, "has no effect upon me. I impose my personality upon the weather...
...Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...
...toss off Carmen (gleeful eyeful) Miranda too lightly. Garbed in a florist's nightmare, she struts about spouting Brazilian double-talk with the facility of a side-show barker. There is a certain electric element in her contortion with commentary, something that makes the whole experience at least refreshing...
...arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...
...Lutze, an experienced player from last season, and red-headed Freshman Mike Fansler are scheduled to start at the guards if Hyde plays center, but if Burditt starts, it will be a three-way toss-up for the guard positions...