Word: tossed
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Gaines didn't really invent the magazine, didn't toss in ideas, didn't recruit new editors or writers or artists. Rather, he carefully oversaw the details of the business and by the (mainly) happy force of his personality helped whip up the wiseacre clubhouse chaos from which Mad emerged. "He always said, 'You're going to have to carry me out of here,' " Meglin remembers, "because he didn't have many interests. Mad was his life's work, his hobby, his social life...
...Eliot House resident qualified for the Olympics with a personal-best 205-foot toss at his training facility in northern California...
...Right end] Don Forte had two teeth knocked out early in the game, but he came back to repeat his touchdown stint of two weeks ago against Army. His performance in pulling [halfback Fran] Lee's toss out of the air so captivated ... Bull Barnes that he said he'd like to have two of his teeth...
...Just about every day on Sproul Plaza therewould be someone sitting there with a bull horn atlunchtime trying to have a rally about this orthat or standing on the steps giving a speech,"says Loebl. "We would sit at lunch, toss a frisbeeand watch...
Part of the novel's fun is the flip, slightly unreal dialogue the characters toss back and forth. Corrine, who has a crush on Jeff, asks why he won't talk seriously about his feelings. He answers, "Basically, I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them, and women sleep with men so they can talk with them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian...