Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis had managed to increase airplane production in the late months of 1944, after dispersing and hiding their assembly plants. They now evidently had more planes than they could fuel. The German High Command may have decided to toss the Luftwaffe on the funeral pyre, along with everything else...
...lead and had increased it to three point lead and had increased it to three points with only 35 seconds remaining. Hull came back for Company C with a hook shot that connected from the corner but time ran out as Firth made good on a one-point charity toss from the foul line. Firth, with a second-game total of 22 points, and Baker, with 11, paced the Standish offensive, while for Company C, Love had eight field goals and a foul shot, and Hull and Kavanaugh each put in four field goals...
...campaign had been fought almost solely over one supercharged issue: the Dominion Government's policy of partial military conscription. The Liberal candidate was the man charged with making that policy work: National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton. The voters had heard Tory orators toss flat charges of inadequate reinforcements and shipboard mutinies among draftees. General McNaughton had denounced such stories as "lies," and three times Prime Minister King had asked for McNaughton's election. The riding had returned Liberals to Parliament in 1935 and 1940. But this time it was different...
...youths got panicky and spilled a lurid story: they were members of the Brooklyn College basketball team, had pocketed bribes of $1,000 (to be split with three other teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged, for an additional $2,000, to toss a later game with St. Francis' College. Racketeers Rosen and Stemmer, byproducts of the big basketball gambling market, had set their sights on a sure way to slough the bookies...
...says the Army-Navy classic coming up soon is the chief topic of conversation among the serviceman now that the election is over, and as far as he can see it's a toss-up. "Navy has lost a couple of tough ones this fall. But I think Army's Earl Blaik is the better coach...