Word: tossup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey team's traditional "conditioning match" against Providence College will be rated strictly as a tossup tonight when the two sophomore-laden teams meet at 9 p.m. in the Boston Garden...
Even the once blameless sex life of the cinema cowboy has been coming in for some sharp scrutiny from European critics. Critic Schein detects a sadistic dislike for women: "In The Outlaw, the young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...
White Light. The game generates considerable campus excitement and is played by a radio hookup between the competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points...
...hockey wins will face off at 4:30 this afternoon the Watson rink. Powerful Boston University with a 7-0 record may be the toughest opponent this season for the Yardlings, who have a spotless 6-0 record. On the basis of comparative scores, the one should be a tossup. The Terriers are defeated Boston College twice, 2 to 0 and 5 to 4, while the Yardlings also beat the Eagles, 6 to 4, just before the exam period layoff. Both teams gained two-final victories over Northeastern...
...Tossup. But in West Berlin, the remains of the old Municipal Opera company struggled to survive in a house whose ceiling was still perforated by bomb fragments. The Western occupation authorities did not include opera in their budget, so Municipal singers got starvation salaries. The few able conductors and singers who stuck with it did so only out of loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup...