Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining unbeaten teams in the Ivy League, Cornell is obviously going to be tough. But Princeton, a winless team, murdered Cornell in total offense last Saturday and only lost because of fumbles and interceptions. Cornell is a slight favorite on paper, but the game should be rated a toss-up. Ivy Standings W L Cornell 1 0 Dartmouth 1 0 Harvard 1 0 Yale 1 0 Columbia 1 1 Penn 1 1 Brown 0 2 Princeton...
...that the increases in Social Security levies should be postponed until 1973. Walter Heller contends that it was wrong "to feed corporations with the economic raw meat of a $5 billion investment tax credit on top of the $4 billion depreciation give away, and at the same time toss the consumer the small bone of a $2.5 billion speedup in income tax reductions." Robert Nathan calls the tax cuts an "absolute fraud." Their stimulative effects, he believes, will not even take place during the freeze period...
Disowning Richard Nixon, his right-wing former supporters carefully point out, is a decision reluctantly reached. After all, one does not toss off an old ally and champion without shedding tears for what once had been. But the moderate tone of Richard Nixon's presidency-while not liberal enough to satisfy critics in the center or on the left -has so disturbed many of his conservative backers that he appears to be in some danger of alienating a constituency he has counted as his for 25 years. Welfare reform, cutbacks in defense spending, advocacy of deficit spending and Keynesian...
...Druze rather than Hebrew, came to help; incidents mounted until one officer and what the army described as "a number of soldiers" were charged with unnecessary brutality toward Arab civilians in the course of their searches. Informers eventually turned up Mahmoud Slieman Zak, who had been paid $28 to toss the grenade. Israel rarely invokes the death penalty, so the boy was sentenced to seven life terms plus 50 years. Mahmoud showed little emotion until the judge said that there was not enough evidence to prove that the boy belonged to a clandestine guerrilla organization. "You did that deliberately...
Neville, who along with Martin was selected last Fall in the professional football draft, won the discus with a toss of 143' 11", beating Harvard's Richard Gilbane on the basis of fewer attempts. Next year, Neville will be studying at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship...