Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa would make a great passing combination-if insults and accusations were footballs. Last week it was Jimmy's turn to toss: free after standing federal trial in Nashville, Tenn., Hoffa charged that Bobby had tried to tell Nashville Banner Publisher James G. Stahlman what the paper "should or should not print" about the trial. Moreover, he said, he could provide a transcript of a telephone conversation in which Bobby pressured Stahlman...
...north of us shouting 'Africa for the Africans,' " cried Whitehead to raucous catcalls from white farmers. "We must plan a system that will last 25, 50 or 100 years." Stumping energetically for Sir Edgar, Welensky argued that the surest way to preserve white rule was to toss some concessions to the 2,900,000 blacks in the self-governing British colony...
Shattered. How long New York's news drought would endure depended on the staying powers of the opposing sides. At the Journal-American, Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford...
...with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson-or somebody identified as "T. S-"-says, "You mean toss it in the well and see the kind of splash it makes; follow it into the high grass and see if it eats; get down to where the rubber meets the road." The only possible mistake in the transcript that was leaked to him, admits Krock, is the section which reports...
...vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored purple, cerise or tangerine. The beach-bound set will wander the islands in shirts that follow the Pucci dictum (find two colors that cannot go along quietly, put them together, and toss in five or six more for accents) and accompanying slacks that are cut as slim as decency permits...