Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of taking the usual workload of 34 hours in her first two semesters, Edith upped the ante to 40. By June, she still had eleven credits left to go, but she decided to toss these off in one fell swoop during the summer. This week, when the university announced that she would get her bachelor's degree after less than a year, her average stands at 4.25 out of a possible 5, i.e., almost...
...three, father and son were playing catch. At six, Willie was so anxious to get ahead with his baseball that he could not wait for the old man to come home. Afternoons, on the ball diamond across the street, he played a strenuous and lonely game: he would toss a ball in the air and run it down, or hit out a fungo, then tear around the bases and slide ferociously into home...
Smarting under the adamant refusal of Chicago's city building commissioner to give her a liquor license for her highbrow 1020 Art Center (TIME, May 24), Mrs. Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, resigned as president of the Modern Poetry Association. But she still planned to toss a few favors and dollars toward Poetry magazine, the flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes, and to make her old family mansion a shrine for longhaired folks. Ever since her Gold Coast neighbors began objecting to the club's intrusion on their quiet life...
Literate Irishmen like to recall the days when their country used to toss huge logs -Joyce, Yeats, Synge-on the fires of 20th century literature. Last month Dublin's Irish Times keened over the current era of matchstick prose and poetry: "Search the horizon as we will, we can see no budding poet, no young incipient novelist . . . The Irish literary Hamlet has expired; the rest is silence." The horizon-searching Irish Times has apparently overlooked a 44-year-old Belfast schoolteacher named Michael McLaverty, who is admittedly no Hamlet, but whose novels make first-rate kindling for a homely...
...term for ad-lib singing by members who have never worked together. Naturally, woodshedding is considered a complex form of quartet work, since it calls for correct harmony and a working repertory of dozens of songs. This is no place for a crow (a nonsinging member who might sometimes toss in an ad-lib dum-dee-dee-dee), but calls for S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. men who can drop (the bass singer drops down one octave at the close of the song), scoop (hitting a note on the flat side and sliding up to proper pitch) and swipe (singing a progression...