Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scored with driving lay-ups. He hit from the outside. His huge hand flashed out of melees under the hoop to tap in rebounds. Agile as an acrobat, he seemed to hang suspended in mid-air while he faked his man, then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National...
Alexia? The language is that of a literary acrobat cockily performing newly-learned tricks and listening slyly for applause. In one neon-streaked passage, Durrell preens so obviously that his arrogant virtuosity is amusing: "I question myself eagerly. Is this amusia, aphasia, agraphia, alexia. abulia? It is life.''* The narrator, a knockabout literary sort named Lawrence Lucifer, gloats over sex, happily flexes his ability to shock ("I am afraid to shake hands with him, for fear that the skin will slip the bony structure of the hand and come away. It would take so little to produce...
...Navy lieutenant who had won the 220 in the record time of 2:00.2. In a trial heat, Farrell tied the listed record of 48.9. But 16-year-old Steve Clark of Los Angeles qualified in 48.8. Suitably impressed, Farrell hit his tumble turns in the finals like an acrobat, won in the record time of 48.2 (Clark was fifth, with 49.4) So fast were the American sprinters that 19 bettered the 51-sec. world record of Johnny (Tarzan) Weissmuller, which had stood from 1927 to 1943. Australia's Jon Henricks, 24, a student at the University of Southern...
...McCartan and his U.S. teammates came of age at Squaw Valley. Against the hard-shooting Canadians, Goalie McCartan turned acrobat to stop 39 shots, save the day while his buddies made up for their lack of teamwork by scrap and scramble...