Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jugs of Martinis. "Our candle does more than burn at both ends," says a Millay-minded character in Young Mr. Keeje. "We toss the whole thing into the fire!" Young Jimmy Keefe, the novel's hero, resembles less a blazing youth than a defective flue. His ego is choked with remorse over a botched-up marriage and clogged with vague resentment over the $4,000,000 he will one day inherit from his father, a Connecticut tycoon. In self-imposed California exile, Jimmy measures out his woebegone life in thermos jugfuls of martinis. His chief drinking pals are Fellow...
...toss-up events that may ultimately decide the contest are the high and broad jump. "We have three jumpers and they have three jumpers," McCurdy said, "but other than that all you have is an on-paper advantage...
...23rd CRIMSON score came as somewhat of an insult to WHRB, as the local newsmen inserted their cheerleader-manager from the Radcliffe Bureau to toss in a free throw...
...unauthorized-and presumably undignified-major satellite. The Army, which had had the foresight to bring Von Braun and his team to the U.S. in the first place, and which had supported him all along in the face of awesome obstacles, would have liked nothing better than for him to toss up the first U.S. satellite. Such men as Lieut. General James Gavin, the brainy chief of Research and Development, and Major General John Medaris, the able military commander at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, saw in a successful moon, and its proof of rocket superiority, a way for the Army...
...Another announced Army project is a rocket motor with 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, twelve times the power of the souped-up Redstone. Meanwhile, said Dr. von Braun, a second Jupiter-C is being made into a satellite launcher. Some time between now and April it will toss another small satellite, probably equipped with different instruments, into its round-the-world orbit...