Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most probably throw the Tigers, the Crimson, and Dartmouth into a three-way tie for the crown. But although Princeton has a number of intangible advantages, including the home pool and an incentive to retain at least a share of the crown, the meet is rated a virtual toss...
...second round was pure massacre. Foreman rushed in for the kill, connected with a hard chopping right and Frazier caved in. After taking the mandatory eight count, the champion tried to cover up; the challenger clubbed him down again. Foreman gestured to Frazier's seconds to toss in the towel, but the champion somehow pulled himself up on the ropes and Referee Arthur Mercante signaled the fighters to continue. Foreman obliged by hitting the nearly helpless Frazier with a head-snapping right cross that put him down for the sixth and final time. Mercante stopped the slaughter...
Kenscoff, about 1 3 miles away. The terraced farms clinging to steep mountainsides, the brilliant foliage and even the boys along the road who toss flowers into passing cars (in the hope that motorists will stop and buy more) all contribute to a scene of rare beauty. At Kenscoff, the bright colors of the wares in the huge, open, hillside market, as well as an occasional cockfight, provide other sights rarely seen by Americans. The marketplace is sometimes enlivened by a "ra-ra," a spontaneous celebration that frequently occurs in the spring when people don colorful costumes and engage...
...this makes the opposite page look reassuring. Toss in another column in width, a few more inches in length, more frequent publication, United Press service, and the rest, but the editorial page makes the big difference between the Service News and the Crimson. April...
...Afro-American Studies today. I therefore think it important, practically and symbolically, that the Harvard Faculty recognize through new legislation that it alone is responsible for rectifying the intellectual shambles it created in Afro-American Studies in April, 1969. These shambles, which stem from the faculty's decision to toss its standards to the winds in face of threats of violence in 1969, require discrete procedures for their removal and I would have more confidence in the success of these procedures if they are entrenched in faculty legislation...