Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment in Brasilia, and a colonel banged on the door, shouting that the marshal was under arrest. "Tell the colonel that he knows only an officer of my own rank can arrest me," said Lott, and went back to sleep. Back came a field marshal (Brazil has 36) to toss Lott into a damp, stone walled dungeon beneath the Fortress of Laje, a turret-topped rock jutting above the waters of Rio Bay. On Denys' orders, more than 100 army officers, loyal to Lott and insisting that the constitution be respected, were rounded up at Tommy-gun point...
...just 2 ft. ½ in. off the world record set in 1959 by Poland's Edmund Piatkowski. Fortnight ago in Frankfurt, he broke the record convincingly with a heave of 198 ft. 7 in. Not content with last week's record toss in Brussels.Silvester intends to stay in the throwing ring until he has flung the discus past that magic barrier...
...Each toss sent a fruit salad of custom creations arcing past the chandelier in his exclusive salon. A mere 60 women had managed to squeeze into the maelstrom, along with a handful of men. But as hats fell like peonies from heaven, ladies grabbed and shrieked. Five stalwart matrons, operating as "The Syndicate," reached for anything that sailed by, however conservative...
...health insurance plan, A.M.A. scored a smashing win. Through the 19403, opinion polls had shown that a majority of the U.S. electorate-74% in a FORTUNE poll-favored such a plan. Ewing's idea was to levy a 4% payroll tax (to yield $4.5 billion as of 1950), toss in a couple of billions from general revenues, and cover hospital and medical care for 85% of the population. Patients would have free choice of physician. Doctors would be free to join the plan or not; those in it would decide whether they wanted to be paid...
...that role of salesman that Barry Goldwater has caught popular imagination. At his worst, Goldwater can stumble and stammer through carefully rehearsed texts. Fortunately, he is far more likely to toss away his prepared speech and make the same pitch in gutsy, give-em-hell language that puts the essence of his conservatism in metaphors of the man in the street. He talks neither up nor down to his audiences: he talks to them with obvious sincerity, and in so doing demolishes the stereotype of the conservative as the square in the Celluloid collar. For even his political opponents agree...