Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close fight. Sports Illustrated and Inside Sports pick Leonard. Sports magazine and the New York Daily News side with Hearns. When Ring Magazine, "The Bible of Boxing," polled 37 experts for the views of the fight, the result was 13 for Leonard, 12 for Hearns and 12 toss-ups. Get the picture...
...general sense, parity means balance and equality; in Ivy Title jargon, it means a toss-up. There is no consensus on championship squad, although many tentatively bestow the early-season jinx on Princeton...
...silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...
...more surprised than Ben Plucknett when he broke the world discus record this month with a toss of 237 ft. 4 in. That was a stunning 14 ft. better than his best throw last year when Plucknett edged out Al Oerter to make the U.S. Olympic team, and it came at a time when the California athlete said he was so tired from overtraining that "this shouldn't be happening...
...when I watch John McEnroe toss raquet into the beautiful turf at Wimbledon and call the wonderful old gentlemen who serve as umpires "incompetent fools," I have little patience for the argument that Mac does it to psyche himself up. He's been a crybaby for a long time...