Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gambler tries to get the hero to toss the championship fight, and stuffs money in his coat pocket to urge him on, but the hero spurns him. On the big night at the Garden the hero is down on the canvas when he sees the gambler at the ringside grimacing at him to quit. This burns him so much that he leaps up and wins the fight, like that. Soon after, the gambler's goons throw the hero into the Hudson River, but he survives and goes to live in Germany...
...Sunday afternoon climbers, averaging half experts and half dudes, toss on backwoods clothing and 120 feet of coiled rope and ride the subway to Quincy under the disapproving glances of Bostonian eyebrows. The quarry itself is a city of rock cliffs and groundwater lakes, where engineers built America's first cog railway in 1836 and a local murderer dumped a dead salesman in 1948. Old-timers in the Har- vard crowd simply sidle up to a cliff and start, walking up the wall in a manner that is quite disconcerting to observe...
...Sibi Sisti couldn't be denied. His artistic soul crushed by such artful subterfuge, he took the force throw and didn't toss to first. Something about it getting stuck in his glove...
...famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official...