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Word: tossing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much more important things to do. It should be able to buy directly all the power it needs for its own vital work. The contract should go to the lowest competent bidder. The thing to do with this Dixon-Yates contract, Mr. President, is to toss it into the ashcan. Then offer to buy the electric power we need from whosoever makes the lowest bid. Even Democrats don't know how to make a better deal than that. It will deprive them of an issue, and it will settle your problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Nov. 22, 1954 | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Salzburger Knocker. Made the easy way. This recipe is for people who cannot toss a soufflé omelette in the air to turn it over in the pan. Mix 1½ tablespoons flour and 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and 1 pinch of salt. Add these to the well-beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Blend well, and then fold into the well-beaten whites of 6 eggs. Melt ¼lb. butter in a large, deep, iron frying pan. Pour the mixture into this. Cook over a slow flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Then place under the broiler and cook slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: AN ALICE B.TOKLAS SAMPLER | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Adams defeated Leverett, 12 to 0, yesterday to tie Dunster for the House football championship. But the Gold Coasters then lost a coin toss and Dunster will be the team to play Yale's champion Branford College here Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Eleven Triumphs, Ties Funsters for Crown | 11/18/1954 | See Source »

...Adams ties Dunster, Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, said yesterday, the team to play Yale will be decided by a coin toss, and the championship by a play-off next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Team Beats Dunster in Football; Adams Can Tie Today | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

...rare heroes. O'Casey can also bring himself to toss a rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O'Casey at the Bat | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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