Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 9:30 on All Saints Day when the streets began to heave and toss, darkening the city under a cloud of dust raised from collapsing buildings. Church bells clanged by themselves, until they fell out of their towers. The tremors could be felt as far away as Scotland. Soon the fires broke out. Some flames were doused by the tidal wave, which reared 30 ft. high and crashed to the shore, drowning survivors who had not been crushed or burned. Once the water receded the looters came, including the inmates and galley slaves of the local prisons, plundering anything...
...special honor, but here we pretty much throw it out the window. (This column, for instance, will only be read by one pair of eyes besides mine before it gets to you.) We write to fill space, like I'm doing right now. We toss in irreverent, shocking and provacative statements like...
Sumner Redstone, a man who does not easily toss in his cards, was determined not to be shunted aside in the bidding war for Paramount Communications last week. As the clock ticked down toward a Friday-midnight deadline for new bids, Wall Street was wondering whether Viacom Inc.'s chairman would be able to pull a last-minute rabbit out of his hat. Unknown to most analysts and investors, a team of investment advisers and lawyers was secretly huddled at the Ritz Carlton hotel in New York City negotiating a blockbuster of a deal that would help Viacom beat...
...flatbed train, the soldiers survey their stock -- a pile of emaciated bodies, hundreds of men, dead or near dead -- and begin their work. With brute efficiency they toss the bodies into a deep, burning pit. Down the hill the bodies roll, toward incineration. They don't slide with the burly grace of stunt men; they topple clumsily, bumping into one another, robbed of dignity even in their dying. For agonizing minutes the carnage continues, until the soldiers' job is done and the pit smolders with an almost visible stench...
Champi lines up. He takes the snap andscrambles. The gun sounding the end of regulationfires. The number one receiver on the play isCrim, but the fullback has three Elis ready tobatter him if the ball comes his way. Champireadies a toss to Crim, but pulls his hand back atthe last second. Instead, he scrambles a littlemore before firing a pass to the Crimson'scaptain. Gatto hauls in the football in the cornerof the endzone to cut Yale's lead to two points.Just two points...