Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed his future interests toward philanthropy...
...from the wingback spot on Columbia's 20 to Botsford on the four to start the Crimson scoring at 9:48 of the opening period. Then, 13 minutes through the second period Botsford, on fourth down, pitched 13 yards to Bob Morrison in the left flat; he took the toss on Columbia's six, cluded halfback Art Wilson, and went across standing...
...behind it, even the most outrageous scene became plausible. The almost continuous recitative was punctuated with honest, lyrical arias, and a couple of taut musical interludes showed just how high a master could build tension. When it was all over, the audience stripped roses from the theater boxes to toss at the cast's feet, and the press tossed rosy adjectives. Would any other opera house undertake it? Probably not without drastic cuts-and a new leading lady. Said Soprano Dow: "They can do it again, but not with me. I don't want to lose my voice...
...with a face like a mare, feet like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula has taken her last toss ("She fell at Bombay in the Viceroy's Cup, when the hurdle had been put up to six feet"), Widower Marmaduke marries a typical Frenchwoman named Martine, the tenderest strand of honeysuckle that ever twined round a rock of Gibraltar. Martine has none of Ursula's stamina...
...monsters turning raw materials into finished products. One example was a machine that grinds both the inside and outside of a valve, grooves it as well. Built by Landis Machine Co. of Waynesboro, Pa., the machine has gauges that measure the tolerance after each step m the operation, automatically toss aside faulty valves and readjust the machine to the proper dimensions. Cost...