Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That should take care of the lady's tensions, Vogue concludes buoyantly, ignoring the loutish bewilderment of the cabbie and dismissing the astonished headwaiter with an imperious toss of the relaxed head...
Surrealism was an old tired story when World War II outdated it for keeps. Some of Surrealist Salvador Dali's zany stunts were curiously prophetic of blast and ruin; today they seem tame compared with the actuality of bombs that can melt watches, toss armchairs into treetops and instantly disintegrate a man. Dali is showman enough to know it and he has taken a new tack-back toward Raphael...
...only Wilson and Tootell may hit 150 feet. Dick Rubin and Erie Stromsted will throw the hammer over 100 feet in the first meet and may be close to 150 by the end of the season. Trimble, Raverby, Charlie Keith, and Phil Campbell are entered in the javelin toss, and Trimble should go way over 170 early in the season...
Both parts of Point Four should be passed, without further cuts or more restrictions. Many nations--too weak, perhaps, to have a say in the cold war--are waiting for America to toss bread upon the waters...
...clock to test the presidential pulse. Herbert Hoover gave him a new title: "Physician to the White House." Worried about Hoover's 194 lbs., Boone invented the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Hoover was reluctant at first: "Nobody would want to get up and come over here and toss a medicine ball with me at 7 o'clock in the morning." But soon there were enough aspiring, perspiring Republicans to form two medicine-ball squads on the White House lawn every morning, tossing a 5-lb. ball over a 9ft. net. Among them: Mark Sullivan, Pat Hurley, Ray Lyman Wilbur...