Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many glasses of milk do you drink per day?" asked a giggling teeny-bopper of the star. "Seven," ad-libbed Swimming Champ Mark Spitz, 24. Then he drank a small carton of milk-the way that Dean Martin used to toss off something harder -and launched into his stage debut at the Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, Calif. Backed by a fresh-faced chorus called the Mark Curb Congregation, Mark soft-shoe-shuffled and crooned through a couple of olden goldies, The Sidewalks of New York and A Bicycle Built for Two. Then he introduced his guests, National Hula...
...reporter on the scene. The reason, of course, was that he himself had committed the murders. He would hide behind a narrow turning in a Nicosia side street, wait for his victim to pass, and then blow the man's head off or shatter his back. He would toss his gun to a small boy, who would disappear into the bowels of the earth. Sampson would then run away and reappear several minutes later clutching his reporter's notebook." Although much of his terrorism was politically motivated, he acquired a reputation for sadistically enjoying the pain he inflicted...
...girls may come in couples to ogle, say, a topless Mark Farner of Grand Funk. Then there are the brassy groupies with their stevedore vocabularies who haughtily flaunt their backstage passes. The boys come in gangs and do what gangs do -fling lighted matches, fight the bouncers, sometimes toss empty wine bottles. Vomiting from too much beer or wine is a status symbol. If these kids do not have tickets, they break in. A heavy security force, sometimes including local police, is de rigueur at most rock concerts...
...billowy curves outlined in clinging red satin, Maggie Bell jingles a tambourine and struts across the stage. "I was the universe in your eyes, and I was the sunset and sunrise," she intones huskily. With an emphatic toss of her head, Bell shakes out a jungle of tangled curls, bawling lustily, "I know you send your regards to the queen of the night." As the final notes drown in a roar of noisy affirmation, she mops her streaming face with a Turkish towel...
Jackson has not always been a leader. When he began playing with the A's full time in 1968, he was an angry and confused young man. When he struck out, as he did often enough to lead the league for four consecutive years, he would toss his bat to the ground or slam his batting helmet onto the dugout bench. His morale was not helped by a bitter feud that quickly developed with Finley. This dispute, which began over salary and spread in 1970 to Jackson's quality of play, reached a peak late that summer. While...