Word: tossing
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Everyone had expected French fears and French objections to rearming the Germans. But no one quite expected that Defense Minister Jules Moch would toss into the parley a new, complex idea that went far beyond military organization into international politics and economics. Its essence: West German rearmament must not be above the regimental or battalion level, and then only within the framework of a West European federation, subject to the authority of a West European parliament and based on the Schuman Plan for integrating the West European coal & steel industry...
Burgers watch television (his favorite: Sid Caesar), or toss shreds of ground meat to fat trout in the pond. "When you catch one of those meat-fed trout," he says, winking, "it tastes like lamb chops...
Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Military College in Chester asked the cops for help in warding off bands of teen-age girls who roam the campus between 7 and 9 p.m., send up she-wolf calls, toss stones through open dormitory windows wrapped in such distracting teen-age messages as "Why don't you come out and have some...
...sticking to the numerous aspects of atomic energy which have nothing to do with bombmaking (e.g., radioactive tracers), Phoenix Project hopes to keep itself unhampered by restrictions. If its scientists stumble on something of "weapons" importance, they will toss it to the Government as if it were a radioactive potato...
Irving Langmuir's ants need not have drowned [TIME, Aug. 28] had they realized the potentialities of jet propulsion. As a boy in western Washington, I used to toss large black ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...