Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tale spinners Spielberg and Lucas (who devised the story with Menno Meyjes) and screenwriter Jeffrey Boam were obviously brimming to work variations on the nearly $700 million-grossing theme. For openers, they toss teenage Indy (River Phoenix) into a nest of cave robbers, a lion's den and a snake pit, thereby explaining, with an economy that Feuillade and Freud might admire, the origins of their hero's hat, his favorite weapon and his fear of serpents. The movie's creators have not grown tired. They keep the action cracking as smartly as Indy's bullwhip...
Other competitors for the Crimson included freshman Rita Raju, who finished 10th in the triple jump with a distance of 37-ft., 10 1/2-in., and freshman Kathy Griffin. Griffin placed seventh in the shotput with a toss of 13.06 meters and seventh in the hammerthrow with a distance of 44.60 meters...
...time limitations, it was decided that the winner of a coin flip before the game would win the game in the event of a tie score. Harvard had won that coin toss and thus, was given the victory...
...Twins games, speaks for many of his peers when he says that baseball "breaks up the monotony of endless golf." A 14-year-old wearing a T shirt emblazoned with the face of the Reds' Chris Sabo, the N.L. Rookie of the Year in '88, says, "It's a toss- up. Baseball and girls are about equally boss...
Bill Cleary, coach of the NCAA champion Harvard hockey team, is nursing a sore shoulder and his toss from the Fenway mound bounced a few feet shy of Sox catcher Rich Gedman...