Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual performance figures of up-to-date afterburners are secret. The great flames are probably inefficient, using floods of fuel. But they will toss a fighter up to 40,000 feet in half the time that would be needed without them. For an interceptor like the F-94, a few minutes saved in climbing might mean success in downing an enemy bomber...
...gnarled woman had become so shrunken that she weighed only 97 pounds when treatment was begun; her husband picked her up like a doll when she had to be moved. Now hale & hearty, she weighs 170 pounds, and her husband complains that she can toss him around...
...play like this in the theater is that it will be all wings and no feet. But John Gielgud's staging is as precise in detail as it is ebullient in effect; and a finely blended English cast knows how to rumble the lines or caw them, toss them to the roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously so rasp...
Once, to show how fear affects the human body, Poole had a scientist toss a king snake at a woman who had been wired for reaction; the audiometer recorded her leaping heartbeats. Another night, X rays were taken of a woman's lungs, developed and held up for the TV audience to inspect. Review viewers have seen how polluted water looks under a microscope, how plastics are made, chemists trained, and atoms frozen...
...producers sensed the need for something extra to toss to the Technicolor camera, the picture rings in Dan Dailey, Harry James, Jeanne Grain, Reginald Gardiner and Victor Mature, all playing themselves in bit parts...