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Word: tossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the video camera rolls at a shoot, adult performers present each other with identification and valid--less than 90-day-old--HIV tests to prove that neither performer carries the virus. The exchange is routine and ritualistic, like a coin toss before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Deep Throat | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Even through the grainy newsreels, we can see what the people at the time saw: the radiant smile, the eyes flashing with good humor, the cigarette holder held at a jaunty angle, the good-natured toss of the head, the buoyant optimism, the serene confidence with which he met economic catastrophe and international crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...intend to mislead you. This was not an out-of-the-way excursion for me. For most of my childhood, I lived a mere pumpkin toss away from the woods that the Headless Horseman and other ghosts are rumored to have haunted. I passed through Sleepy Hollow and its brother town, Tarrytown, all the time. Its 7-11 and Baskin Robbins were perfect spots for midnight snacks. I ran cross-country races in some of the town's back woods. I even took my SAT's at Sleepy Hollow High School. But, through all those years, I was entirely unaware...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...chance are pretty good, but it's always a toss up because it's a game of emotion," said Yale junior free safety Than Miller. "It doesn't matter what team's more skilled...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks to Spoil Yale's Shot at the Ivy Title | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...spacious west lobby of the Loeb Drama Center, about a dozen students sat in a large circle, set up to accommodate many more students. The few who did come joined with the HRDC executive board to toss out suggestions and brainstorm ways to diversify the staff involved in putting up shows on campus...

Author: By Joyce K.mcintyyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRDC Hosts Meeting on Minorities | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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