Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object of honor; poor families from Rio's slums and evening-clad nightclub patrons waded into the water to toss in offerings-liquor, perfume, jewelry, and thousands of bouquets of white chrysanthemums...
WASHINGTON--In a close battle that turned on the issue of age and aggressiveness, House Republicans voted Tuesday to toss out the veteran Joseph W. Martin as their leader and replace him with Charles A. Halleck of Indiana...
...main feature of the freshman meet, which is rated a toss-up, will be the appearance of the sensational John Thomas, who high jumped...
Pioneer III was designed to attain a top speed of 24,486 m.p.h. This would have been enough to toss it free of the earth's gravitation and make it a satellite (or burned-up victim) of the sun. The actual speed attained, 23,606 m.p.h., was only enough to carry the gold cone 66,654 miles from the earth. It reached its high point in 20 hours of travel. Then it fell back. Gathering speed again in its long fall, it hit the earth about 20 hours later in a brief streak of flame in the night...
...When I saw them march onto that field," says Team Captain Brock Strom, "I got to admit I got kind of choked up." Strom, a burly tackle, wept as he went to midfield for the toss of the coin. "After seeing the rest of the cadets march in,'' says Martin, "I knew our team would rather have died right on the field than fail them." The Falcons promptly played Iowa off its feet for a stunning...