Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...tortuous proceedings of the NCAA conference last weekend provide an interesting commentary on the minds and consciences of the men who fondle the cash receipts from America's "amateur" intercollegiate program. It seems inconceivable that anyone could have expected the members to toss out the seven erring sisters indicted for breaches of the Sanity Code, but something akin to a grasp of surprise greeted the failure of the athletic Pharisees to carry out the proposed hypocrisy...
Enthroned last week as archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of North & South America, big, bearded Archbishop Michael Constantinides, 57, promptly proceeded to toss a hand grenade into the ecumenical movement. At a recent meeting in Athens, said he, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece had decided that henceforth "no bishops of the Church of Greece could serve as official delegates to the World Council of Churches or hold any office . . ." The Church of Greece (membership: 5,961,000) is only one of 15 member churches in the Orthodox Communion, but, asserted Michael, it holds that...