Word: tossup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurricane Gracie permitting, the varsity soccer team will open its season against Tufts this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Medford. The game must be rated a tossup, since little is known about either team at this early stage of the campaign...
...traditional cap tossup into spectators' hands began sheepishly at the new Air Academy. A few brave graduates tossed; the rest finally followed. At West Point, caps soared as they have for generations-and for the last time. Next year West Pointers will have to keep their caps after graduation and not waste them on civilians...
...game-adapted from a 1953-55 radio show-pairs two colleges, each with four-student teams. Quizmaster Allen Ludden, 41, a sometime writer on teenage manners and morals (Plain Talk for Men Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives...
...threat to Nixon whether he liked it or not. An Associated Press poll of Republican state chairmen last weekend showed 20 pointing to Nixon as a clear front runner, two (from New York and Massachusetts) claiming Rocky was already the leader-and ten who said it was a tossup between Nixon and Rockefeller...
Tuned Embodiment. Like most northern congressional campaigns, the race in Michigan's Sixth District is a tossup. But in his fight to win, Chuck Chamberlain stands out-perhaps as much as any other beleaguered member of the House-as the hustling, aggressive, inexhaustible, politically tuned embodiment of what it takes to run for re-election to Congress. To begin with, he has a running start because he knows and understands his district through personal identification. He was born on an Ingham County farm, heir to three generations of Ingham County farmers ; he worked as a youth in Lansing...