Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buffet of smoked salmon, roast beef and shrimps in coconut (caviar and foie gras were eliminated for economy rea sons) spread in the State Dining Room not far from the multistoried cake. After an interval at the reception, Tricia will climb halfway up the red-carpeted grand stairs and toss her bouquet down to the attendants waiting below; if Tricia's aim is on, it probably will fall to Ed's 25-year-old sister Maizie, who will be a brides maid. Then, reversing the White House pattern of more than 100 years ? brides customarily change to traveling clothes...
...been practicing on my own ever since I returned from the Pacific theater toward the end of World War II. Whenever I must buy any article, I first examine it to see where it was made. If the inscription "Made in Japan" appears on it, I toss it back onto the store counter and either make do with what I have or do without. I am not going to make Japan's economy any stronger. Wake up, America. Buy American...
...proceeded with an unsettling mixture of high-minded amity and sheer avarice. Indeed, as Thomas presents it, the central failure of the U.S. in the turbulent and bloody story of the island was that it could neither take Cuba quite seriously enough nor leave it quite alone. After helping toss out the Spanish in 1898, it asserted the right to intervene in island affairs-through the notorious Platt Amendment, which was incorporated into the original Cuban constitution. Thomas argues that in fact the U.S. would have done better simply to take over the island British-style and prepare...
...bunch of Black Panthers are gunned down in cold blood by white policemen, we no longer talk about civil rights being violated. There are other words for that sort of thing. There's been a lot of shit under the bridge-and whites and blacks alike no longer toss around the phrase "civil rights" when verbally confronting American racism...
...book has a humane, almost joyful candor that might well assist a perplexed parent. But as for critics of sex education, it is a toss-up which will disturb them more, the permissive attitudes expressed in the text or some of Will McBride's black-and-white photos. Among the picture subjects are couples during intercourse, erect penises and ejaculation; there are also less explicit, sometimes charming evocations of conjugal and family love...