Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm that is owned by Diners Club, was assigned $150 million in debts to collect last year, up $20 million from 1969. Though more agents were hired, the company actually collected only 25% of the debts, compared with 30% in 1969. Some debtors resort to "the hat trick"; they toss all their bills into a hat and at month's end pull out a few at random and pay them...
...Harvard's Ed Nosal claimed a win in the 35-pound weight throw with a heave of 60' 5?" N. U.'s Tom Sirois, who beat Nosal in last year's IC4A's, was second, five inches behind. On his last throw, he scratched out a potential 62' toss that could have changed the character of the meet...
...battle: movement, missile fire (usually cannon, rifle or arrow), melee (close combat) and morale. Movements, for example, are executed closely to scale; players deploy their soldiers according to careful tape measurement. The result of artillery fire is determined by tables compiled from actual battle experience, and by the toss of dice, to add the element of unpredictability. When plastic soldiers clash hand to hand, another set of rules-plus the dice-decides the kill ratio. Even morale is cranked into the battle equation: special tables compute expectable reaction to adverse conditions...
...Filled. It should have come as no surprise that the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh resulted in two cathartic days of rioting by the hurt, hate-filled Vietnamese. Hostility has long been festering in South Viet Nam, on both sides. The Armed Forces Radio exhorts G.I.s daily not to toss cans at Vietnamese motorists. U.S. officials have never denied the existence of a contingency plan in case the withdrawing Americans have to shoot their way to the beaches through hostile South Vietnamese...
...mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice box (J), causing it to throw a natural−District Attorney (K) runs to investigate gambling, causing rope (L) to pull shirt (M) off taxpayer's back...