Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved out to my observation post and had left the latest copy in the pillbox. You see I had been going out there under cover of darkness because it was a pretty risky run in daylight. My radio operator and I talked it over and I won the toss and took the chance of crawling back to get TIME. The Kraut is a lousy shot because he popped about 75 rounds out on each trip and didn't even come close. . . ." CHARLES GOLDBLATT New York City...
Meanwhile, the combined naval attack forces, under suave, bushy-browed Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid, were on their way. For a while it was a toss-up whether A-day would have to be postponed; a minor typhoon was whirling through the gulf. It died out and gave no trouble...
Although a bit inadequate, we toss in our bit of confusion by suggesting that: sanitation difficulties, not Dutch tile expeditions, are responsible for the demolition work; and that a jealous Ibis, not hunger-maddened 'Poonsters, did in the dove, a sadder and flatter bird...
Following a nip-and-tuck fight for the J.V. spot, Charlie Loring's Freshmen will race as the second boat tomorrow, having won a coin toss from Bill Allen's crew. Both crews finished in a dead heat in Wednesday's time trial which was to decide the contest. The third contestant for the J.V. position, Shaw's boat, finished a poor third...
...stack against the plain & fancy pressures he would find in Britain. Well did the men of politics recall the strange coincidence that Australian First Ministers who visit London while in office usually soon find themselves out of a job. Australians, they knew, liked their politicians plain, were quick to toss a man bemused by pomp & circumstance...