Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were six seconds left when Silver dipped, shot and missed his first foul shot. Harvard's leading scorer, however, had been fouled in the act of shooting. His second charity toss was good, and after stealing the ensuing Yale pass in, he was again fouled, Again he missed the first shot, but this time, no second shot was forthcoming...
...everyone spread "Syntax" and kisses around for good luck. In a few seconds they all darted off onto the stage to begin the show's familiar opening number: a series of hilarious pantomines of various ballgames to illustrate to the spectator that "each proposition is your ball, you toss it to us and we develop a strategy for it here on stage." (Besides the closing musical number, this is the only "set" piece in the show...
Perhaps the sequence that best exemplifies the kind of night it was for Harvard occured late in the first half. Guard Joe Leondis was called for a technical foul when, while attempting to toss the ball back to the ref, it inadvertently landed on the head of one of the Brandeis Player...
Traditional novelists toss pebbles into domestic pools and then take notes. The postwar fashion has been to track these projectiles directly into the muck below, but there is another, older way. As masters like Henry James and Virginia Woolf knew, the ripples on the surface can bedevil the eye and engage the mind. Before My Time brushes up this earlier technique. It transforms a brief disturbance of hearth and home into an age of anxiety...
...personally remains intensely disliked and feared outside Bavaria as ein gefährlicher Mann (a dangerous man). That may be a reaction not only to his ultraconservatism but also to the authoritarianism he demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick Bavarian accent. His fondness for German Sekt is well known, and before his 1957 marriage to a brewer's daughter, he frequented Bonn's winehouses and Munich's cafes...