Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toss come out? Yeats, unsurprisingly, gave himself a clear go-ahead, ending his poem...
...dispatched Premier Aziz Sidky to Moscow for what some Cairo officials called "a final friendly ultimatum." By one account, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, returning from a vacation to meet Sidky, once more refused offensive weapons. Brezhnev reportedly dared the Egyptians to go ahead and toss out his advisers...
...judgment and feel for a position are un-equaled," says Grand Master Evans. "Chess is in his fingertips. That's the difference between a master and a truly great grand master like Fischer. The master will study for hours and perhaps make the right move. But Fischer will toss out the moves, on his fingertips, and they will be the unerringly correct ones. He has a sense for what is correct, what is beautiful and what is true...
...piasters ($1,200). For a time it was not uncommon for boys to chop off the first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss in a fragmentation grenade, and cover the hole with a foot. If done properly, the practice brings an instant medical discharge...
Nicolette Milnes Walker, 28, is a brisk British girl who describes herself as a humanist and hedonist and claims to make decisions by balancing pleasure against conscience. When these conflict too horrendously she flips a coin for or against; but instead of abiding by the toss she analyzes whether or not she is happy with the result and if not, overthrows the coin's decision. Perhaps following such methods-though she admits wanting to get away from it all and to impress men-Nicolette decided to sail all alone across the Atlantic...