Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian pilots flew like Cossacks. They liked to toss off bottles of vodka, hurtle down the runway, take off simply by hauling up their wheels. In combat, Red flight leaders flew above and behind their men to make sure no one shied away. They were never the finely honed flyers Germany had for her Luftwaffe (the average life of a Stormovik pilot was seven missions), but there were always plenty to take the place of those who died...
...disregard for the common interest and welfare of all the other colleges in the nation." In succession, Columbia, Cornell, California, and Yale balked at signing football contracts, and Dartmouth threatened to cancel the scheduled game of October 6. Commissioner Asa Bushnell of the E.C.A.C. (an N.C.A.A. subordinate) threatened to toss the Quakers but of Conference leagues in other sports...
...loved food, pretty girls and hiking, does not match the stereotype of the romantic poet; he is far closer to Bernard Shaw's description of him as "a merry soul, a jolly fellow, who could not only carry his splendid burthen of genius, but swing it around, toss it up and catch it again, and whistle a tune as he strode along...
Left-handed Davidson got his start early. When he was three, his father used to toss a ball with his son in the backyard at Marion, N.C. Since then, Billy Joe has pitched two no-hitters, won 20 straight for Oak Ridge (N.C.) Military Institute, averaging 18 strike-outs a game. His semi-pro record: 15-5. Cleveland plans to keep its expensive, draftable youngster for a ten-day tryout, then ship him to the San Diego farm club...
...Korean level, add to them only the actual increases in material costs up to December 31, the labor costs up to March 15. But Di Salle is determined to make businessmen take thinner profit margins and share part of the increase in costs. He will not allow them to toss in increases in the costs of sales, advertising, research, overtime...