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Word: tossing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ajootian handled the 35-lb. weight like it was a nerf-ball and bulked it 63 ft. 4 3/4 in., a personal best. The toss avenged, an earlier defeat to Princeton's Gene Mancino and placed Ajootian second...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Harvard Helpless at Heps | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson field-event entrants were a little healthier and, after their performance, a little happier than the runners. Chris Queen snared the shot-put crown with a 52 ft. 8 3/4 in. toss, while Geoff Stiles shuttled through space in the pole vault for his first victory against Princeton...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Tigers Paw Wounded Harriers | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

Junior strongman Ed Ajootian broke out of his slump--if you can call 59- and 60-ft. throws a slump--with a 63-ft. 2 3/4- in. toss in the 35-lb. weight throw to defeat two tough opponents...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Trackmen Fall to Army, 65-53, As Troop Supplies Run Out | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Harvard also unveiled a new weapon that parallels the role of the designated hitter in baseball--the designated defender. O'Neil substituted guard Douglas McIntosh for almost every Yale in-bounds play. In one sequence McIntosh pilfered an errant toss, deflected a lob, and knocked the ball out of play with his head as he dove across the floor...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Elis Edge Cagers, 74-69, Beaulieu Leads With 30 | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...same concerns. Lubovitch, exploring the ways shape and emotional suggestion interrelate, relies on representational gesture just verging on the abstract. Accompanied by Berio's voice collage "Sinfonia," black-hooded dancers appear, then a man and woman in bared dress. The hooded dancers return unmasked, later reappearing disguised, only to toss their masks defiantly to the side, and then again appear as dark spirits surrounding and overwhelming the lovers. Lubovitch uses his costume flexibly, allowing the masks to suggest rather than to define possibilities. He realizes the unanticipated. As a voice in flat monotone recites to end Berio's score...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lubovitch at the Loeb, Soll, and New England Dinosaur | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

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