Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides the host-school, Harvard is meeting the University of Virginia and William and Mary College. "Everybody is pretty close right now but it looks like a toss-up between Harvard and William and Mary to see who will end up 3-0," Franklin and Marshall coach Ron Gray said. "Virginia looks like the weakest team at this moment," he added...
Mindlessly zonked, Wolfe's society folk wander about, from party to party and cause to cause. That Wolfe should toss their way such bitchy caricature is hardly surprising. (They do seem to invite it.) The real surprise is that he should direct his wit at such people in the first place...
...Kathleen clearly likes the shy, wistful man; perhaps Marjorie, sour and blunt, finds Jack attractive as well. the relationship cannot develop. "Events have their own momentum," Harry says at one point. Without hope, and thus without aims, Jack and Harry are unable to communicate to others. They can only toss words back and forth, hardly listening to the other's answer, speaking of memories that have no relevance to their reality. They can only wait for dinner. When the lights dim, they are still on stage, alone and silent...
Which is all to say, that Vegas has been pretty much handed over to the damned. Why even bother to toss a stray bomb into its midst, when sooner or later the city will consume itself in flame? Yet, at the same time, we were foolish enough to believe that it was to give us back a part of our past...
Yale won the toss, but elected to kick and take the wind. The kickoff was short and fullback Tom Miller brought it out to the 32-yard line...