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Word: tossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good luck charm is my family and they're all in the audience right now!" beamed Miss Illinois, throwing a high-intensity smile at the camera and giving her silky-as-corn-flax mane a confident toss over her naked left shoulder...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: One Fine Night in Newton | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

James Russell led the way for the Crimson, notching a second-place finish in the hammer throw with a toss...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Heptagonals Drive Thinclads In Circles | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

...locked on to the target. The pilot presses a button on his throttle, turning command of the plane's bomb-release mechanism over to the computer. As the plane roars toward its target, the bombs are released to drop in a controlled fall. Then, in what is called a toss, an evasive maneuver to avoid damage by the explosion of his own bombs, the pilot suddenly takes the plane up to about 1,200 ft. Though the plane is wrenching upward, the Pave Tack system, mounted on a device that can swivel 360 degrees , keeps its laser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lethal Video Game | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Prior whipped the ball over to third to catch an advancing Scussel, but her toss sailed high over Rowning--and into the glove of left fielder Mary Sheehan, who was positioned behind the base...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Eagles Sweep Harvard Batspeople: | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...been known to play a little hardball with Congress, but this pitch had nothing to do with Nicaragua or the budget deficit. Instead, Ronald Reagan was at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium last week to deliver the ceremonial toss that marks opening day of the baseball season. The First Fan's first throw, aimed at Orioles Catcher Rick Dempsey, went wild. Then, as the crowd roared, "Ronnie, Ronnie, Ronnie!" the Gipper wound up and delivered a mitt- smacking strike that Dempsey described as a "good, hard fastball, sailing high." The President hung around the O's dugout for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 21, 1986 | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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