Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record was the brainstorm of Dirk Tillen, a Düsseldorf producer who knew that Scheel, 54, was not only a member of the Düsseldorf Men's Glee Club but an irrepressible baritone who would even toss off a ditty or two at birthday parties for Chancellor Willy Brandt. The curiosity factor alone, Tillen reasoned, would sell discs. An added inducement was the promise that profits would go mainly to one of the Foreign Minister's favorite charities -handicapped children. Scheel immediately jumped at the idea, brushing aside complaints from top aides that cutting a record...
...dissenters were also worried about "the possibility that a police officer ... will use a traffic arrest as a pretext to conduct a search." In fact, some do already; if they "toss" the suspect and find nothing, they may not even bother with the traffic arrest. Last week's decision makes clear that future legal attacks on traffic-arrest searches will focus on whether the arrest was called for in the first place...
...bring in enough lost souls to the Mission, and the "heat" is on, forcing Nathan and friends to find a safe place for their floating crapgame. They end up shooting craps in the Mission while everyone is out on an all-night crusade. Sky wins their souls with a toss of the dice. He herds the gamblers into the midnight prayer meeting, Sarah keeps her job, the sinners are saved, and Sky and Sarah are married. It's not the most clever plot around, but it does provide the impetus for the parade of magnified characters and a great score...
While he threw just one touchdown strike, a 30 yard strike to Pat McInally, it proved to be the game winner, coming with a mere one minute, 20 seconds remaining in the game. The TD toss culminated a well engineered 63 yard desperation drive...
Harvard actually won the opening toss but elected to open the game on defense. Crimson captain and safety Dave St. Pierre explained the unorthodox move. "We felt we were the number one defense in the country, so we wanted it on the field not on the bench," St. Pierre said after the game. "And it worked out. I really think we were sticking out there today, and when you're hitting like that, people are bound to make mistakes...