Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Art Siler uncorked the best toss of his career, 50 feet, 5 inches, to take second in the shotput. Jack Murphy leaped 5 feet 10 inches to tie for third in the high jump, while Kip Smith's 13 foot pole vault gave him a tie for fourth...
...Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills. "What'll I do with these?" she asked. Replied the actor, with a careless toss of the head: "Tear 'em up and order some more Miltown...
Penn's aco is Parland Johnston, a senior who has defeated the Crimson's backstroke entries for the past two years. He also may make the 200-yard individual medley a toss-up race against Dave Hawkins and Pete Macky...
...deserts, in forests and on snow-covered mountaintops, the scientific shock troops toss rockets out of the atmosphere or study the performance of dangerous experimental airplanes. Some of these men seldom touch aircraft, "inhabited" or "uninhabited." With weird telescopic cameras, they photograph the trails of meteors, measure the night glow of the sky or the brightness of searchlight beams pointed toward the stars. All these methods give information about the high atmosphere, where future aircraft will...
...Sake? But Callas' singing, remarkable as it is, accounts for only part of her impact. To the unregenerate art of operatic acting, she brings a powerful personality. It shows in the expressive toss of her head as she trills some word less coloratura, in the dramatic contrast of her long white fingers spread against a jet-black robe, in the sudden change in her face as, in mid-song, a new thought crosses her mind. She listens with a special intentness while others sing to her-although it is a question whether the pain that sometimes touches her brow...