Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he was later to toss a nostalgic valentine to his Bronx boyhood in his novel, City Boy, little Herman got off to a depressing start. He was the neighborhood fat boy, forever guzzling chocolate milkshakes. In street fights, "I was clobbered." But he had two powerful consolations: the Wouk home life and books. As soon as he learned to read, he would sprawl on the floor for hours with a tattered old dictionary, glorying in big words like anthropomorphism...
Surprise will not only toss around nearly twice as much money as Question; it also promises to be at least twice as complicated. Containing elements of Talent Scouts, telephone quizzes, and the bygone "Miss Hush" mysteries of radio's Truth and Consequences, Surprise will ask viewers to supply the name of someone who is about to receive a surprise-a promotion, a plaque, a reunion with relatives, in fact, anything at all. The "surprise" will then be shown on the program, and that clears the way for one of those concerned-either the surprisee, the talent scout, or some...
...Cyclopean eye stares deep into the Minoan age that has come down only in legend and a few tantalizing shards from Peloponnesus and Crete. Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon...
...YORK DAILY NEWS: PRESIDENT Eisenhower uncorked Jone of the most sensational proposals ever made anywhere at any time. Said Ike, in effect: Let's you Commies and us Americans toss all our armament cards on the table, to examine at our leisure...
...When people marry, they realize that there are potential periods in their lives when illness or other misfortunes may come their way. The marriage vows, 'in sickness and in health,' should have meaning ... It would indeed be a terrible society where a person could toss aside a wife or husband because serious illness may come their way. Such a philosophy would be contrary to the teachings of all our great religions and a contradiction of the ethics of Western society. If a person should be so callous as to disregard such normal and humane considerations, the state should...