Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...released without bail, to stay overnight in his home with him and his girlfriend. Now Friess has touched off another minor furor. Faced with a repeat offender in a pickpocket case, Friess proposed a novel way to set the sentence. He offered the defendant the chance to toss a coin: heads for 30 days, tails for 20. The coin came up tails. Friess's flip approach piqued the district attorney. But the judge would not budge...
What happened? "There were a lot of complaints that officials were not performing the toss-up technique very well," Bruce Howard of the NCAA explains. Not only that, adds NCAA rules committee secretary Ed Steitz, "some people felt the jump ball played right into the hands of the teams with seven footers, the 7-foot-2 players...
...videotape machine. Maybe you don't even live in one of the estimated 22 million households wired for cable. Does that mean you have to be silent while everyone else natters on with lofty ideas about the "video revolution"? Absolutely not! Herewith a few handy statistics to toss into all the heady talk. Just two hints for beginners: never speak of Betamaxes (that's not a generic term, it's a Sony product name); and never call those dandy $1,000 gizmos videotape machines. They are VCRs, and never mind what the initials stand...
...face to better effect as Cotchipee's wimpy-yet-enlightened son. As these two and others draw Purlie into more and more awkward predicaments, one realizes LaVergne's repertoire of emotions is limited to a few gestures--a frown and shake of the head for disappointment, and a recurrent toss of the shoulders to suggest the determined faith that is ostensibly Purlie's defining characteristic...
Realism first entered the world of dolls when spitting up and wetting became optional features. One toymaker has carried it a bit farther this year, though, with a doll (ostensibly designed for children) that "talks" when you toss it around...