Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot is not much to speak of. It deals basically with a mother's smothering love for her son, and enables the performers to toss off a few pseudo-philosophical remarks of apparently little significance and more than a few good jokes. As long as you don't approach it like a Social Relations case study, Mrs. McThing is excellent exam period-type entertainment...
...friendly. The Casino, once the gathering place of rich royalty and the royally rich, had fallen on bad times. Gone were the days when Alexandra, Czarina of all the Russias, could bring the entire corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled, when a Casino patron could toss a hand grenade into the roulette wheel after losing his wad and scarcely raise a commotion. Currency restrictions had cut the once-rich British trade to a trickle; the recently installed crap tables (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), having failed to attract Americans in any quantities, were merely confusing the other...
...broken by a bloodcurdling "Yeeeeooowwhh!" France's Guy Verrier, uttering the cry to 1) unnerve his opponent, and 2) give added power to his stomach muscles, caught his opponent with a hip hold, gave a mighty heave and hurled Austria's Robert Jaquemond to the mat. The toss earned France's Verrier, 24, a strapping 202-pounder, the individual title at the European Judo championships, and helped France win the team crown (over Austria, 2-0). The fall gave Austria's burly Jaquemond the only injury of the tournament: a sprained wrist...
...undefeated freshman hockey team takes on an equally undefeated Boston College sextet in the Arena today at 4 p.m. The game could well be a toss...
...Toss...