Word: tossing
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When they are confronted with such a situation, scientists are often inclined to toss out the suspect equations, along with the physical theories underlying them. Yet general relativity has withstood many other tests since it was devised by Einstein more than half a century ago, and more and more scientists believe that the evidence in the skies is rapidly piling up in favor of the reality of black holes...
Rescued from the cheerfully destructive crowd at Miserey, the Americans were whisked to Paris, where they were lionized by French officials ("a new bridge between America and France") and invited to spend the night at the American ambassador's residence. Newman won the toss and got to sleep in the same bed that Lindbergh had used after his flight...
...control. At night, they seek shelter in farmhouses, boring holes in the walls and hiding in bedding and curtains. The only way to combat them is with brooms and vacuum cleaners. Says Mrs. James Dow Jr. of Turner: "I vacuum piles of beetles every day and toss them into my wood stove...
When Happy Rockefeller decided to toss a party for 400 or so close friends, she knew just the spot: Pocantico Hills, the family's 3,000-acre estate overlooking the Hudson near Tarrytown, N.Y. It was at the stone-walled residence that folks such as Pierre Trudeau, Henry Kissinger, Arthur Burns and Averell Harriman, helped Nelson Rockefeller celebrate his 70th birthday last week. And it is to Pocantico Hills that the Rockefellers plan to retire eventually. To that end, the former Vice President has put his 21-room retreat on Seal Harbor, Me., on the market. The down-East...
Shaw was a born preacher who loved to toss firecrackers of paradox into the pews of respectability...