Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states could swing the election, Nixon gave orders down through the ranks that the religion issue was not to be mentioned. But a group of 150 Protestant clergymen and laymen, headed by New York's Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) met in Washington to toss a headline-making anti-Catholic manifesto into the campaign (TIME, Sept. 19). The manifesto led to Kennedy's dramatic confrontation with the Houston ministers, and gave the Kennedy forces a golden opportunity to exploit the religion issue in Catholic (as well as Protestant) sections of the U.S. by running...
...what UMass coach Chuck Studley called the most important play of the game. The visitors won the coin toss and chose to defend the open end of the field with the strong wind at their backs. After three unsuccessful Crimsos attempts from scrimmage, the Redmen took charge on their 41 and in 11 plays surprised the varsity with a touchdown...
...trim, broad-shouldered man, the Shah walks with the easy grace of the trained athlete and soldier, shows aware ness of his power with every toss of his silvery royal head. Though he is only the second ruler in the Pahlevi dynasty-which dates from 1926-his profile might have been lifted straight from one of the bas-reliefs in the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis that Alexander conquered. If the Shah has little sense of humor and a prevalent cast of melancholy, it is perhaps because his life has been a sobering affair...
...left the U.S. Naval Academy's rowers adrift in fifth place.
For the U.S. the loss was the first in the event since 1912.
...Wales's Mount Snowdon, 150 miles distant. They yo-yo back and forth between fish 'n' chip houses and some of the United Kingdom's most capacious pubs (Blackpool has 105, one of which can handle 1,000 guzzlers at a time). They also toss away the oversize coins of the realm in penny arcades, and take in Britain's only permanent circus. Even the public toilets have a first-rate box office, bringing in 7,000,000 pennies a year...