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Word: tossing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While we're on the subject of golf, the latest spin-off since the day when King James I ruled Scotland is frisbee golf. In brief, the players try to toss frisbees into baskets fastened to poles while avoiding the natural hazards that strew the course. Three free courses are enjoying heavy traffic in Loss Angeles Country. The one in Pasadena attracts 5000 players a week. The 18-hole low score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Carter Takes Office: Sports at Watershed | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...then things got worse. Already grossed out by the Vikings' performance against Oakland, most people turned a pale shade of purple when the dinner fare was a toss-up between baked meatloaf and sardine salad plate #13, the numeral an indication of how many people could stomach more than one sardine. A real toss-up, if you know what I mean...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Food For Thought, Not Consumption | 1/19/1977 | See Source »

...Rhodesian Foreign Affairs Minister Pieter K. van der Byl, who also happened to be at the airport. In the capital, the attitude of whites toward the visitors was equally hostile. After police arrested a man for carrying a vial of acid, he boasted that he had planned to toss it into Richard's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Richard's Safari of Salvation | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...lose; one of each, toss again). As Murdoch is quoted by his biographer, onetime London Journalist Simon Regan: "I love to play it. You bet on a run. You go in with a couple of quid and two, four, eight, you double it all the time. If you're betting on, say, heads, you can make hundreds if you get a run. Then it comes down tails and you're all through. The real game is the gamble on exactly when to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Here are a few listings Rupert told me to toss your way: Tonight at 8 you got John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys and Old Number 7 at the Rexicana Ballroom on Route 139 in Marshfield. To get to where the good ol' tunes are, you got to rev up the dune buggy, sport. (Tie your Kangaroo down first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

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