Word: tossed
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...beginning, says one school of cosmology, there was "ylem"*: a featureless mass of protons and neutrons containing all the matter in the universe. A little later (perhaps during the second microsecond of Creation), a "great event" took place. The ylem exploded with enough force to toss most of its matter a billion light years away. During the early moments of the resulting confusion, the protons and neutrons reorganized themselves into the chemical elements that form the present-day universe...
...good chance of taking second with the 35-pound weight to the startling heaves of world's record holder Tom Bane of Tufts. Wilson and Jerry Kanter, however, will run into a greater quantity of quality competition in the shot put. Dick Rubin will also compete in the weight-toss...
Against Big Government. At 53, the counselor decided to haul in his shingle and toss his hat once more into the political ring. Dubbing himself the "young guard," Austin defied his state's Republican machine, won a bitterly contested primary, thus assured his election as U.S. Senator. He went to Washington in 1931 and stayed on, winning two re-elections...
...students at the University of California (founded 1868) ever took it into their heads to toss rotten eggs at a commencement speaker, people in the U.S. and around the world would know what to think: it would be the final, but not unexpected, proof of U.S. cultural barbarism. At the University of Glasgow (founded 1451), students have been throwing things for generations, have made public uproar an honored tradition. A visiting Frenchman once called Glasgow's men "the greatest bunch of savages in Europe," and Glaswegians took it as a compliment. Last week, stimulated by both the university...
...views, although the President had been reassured that Britain wanted to stand by the U.S. The talks and the communiqué also indicated an apparent disposition on Mr. Truman's part to search for some area of negotiation with Red China, though clearly he was not ready to toss any gifts into Mao's greedy hands...