Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lungs and he has to breathe it out. He explains how many hours he spends studying and how many sweating. Every two weeks for three months he climbed down from the B-29 into his rocket ship. Each time the flight was called off. Finally he began to toss a utilitarian Dixie container, betraying his nervousness, over the side. But perspiration and micturition were rewarded...
...lawn. Today, in its ultimate refinement, lacrasse is played by ten-men teams on fields 110 yards long. Modern players are not too proud to protect themselves with helmets, shoulder pads, arm pads and long, ribbed gloves. Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with the crosse (lacrosse stick); there is no rule against kicking it either. The rugged character who breaks for the goal while cradling the ball in his stick runs a gauntlet of swinging...
Here it is. Taste it. Smell the ink. Feel the paper. Pass it on to your friends. And if you have any interest in the clothes or anything else when you're through toss everything and run down to Touraine's for the latest in big deals...
...situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments, and more champagne drinking than in any stage work since The Merry Widow, the show is only spottily festive".' To prolong the journey from the psychoanalytic to the nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though he has just noticed a dead horse under the sideboard, or is about...
Connelly's winning toss of 185 feet, 5 1/4 inches broke the old mark of 180-4 set by Thomson last year. In practice, Connelly heaved the steel ball 201-5, six feet more than the American record held by Martin Engel...