Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Unruh, a six foot, four inch sophomore with a crew haircut and a hot hand, drew the applause of the 2600 spectators by his effortless ball handling and never-miss set shooting. He scored 21 points for the evening's high total. Unruh clicked off the first basket, and it was he who grabbed the ball off his own backboard at the final buzzer...
...part of the magazine is the poetry. Only Anne Tolstol's "Carmel" is free from banality and fuzziness. "The Neurotic" is overloaded with the cliches of modern poetry, while "Autumn," a quatrain, consists of what seems to be an inaccurate metaphor. "Carmel," a delicate landscape in verse, has an effortless meter, and is one of the most rewarding pieces recently seen in local publications...
...effortlessness). "This kind of excellence can only be found in the seers, the saints, and the greatest artists. . . . Perhaps untrammeled is the one word which comes closest to suggesting this ultimate quality. ... If [the painter] has attained depth and breadth of character, then he is ready to aspire to that highest kind of freedom, the freedom of effortless creation...
...effortless skating of Guy Owen and Maribel Vinson will probably satisfy ice purists. Stunts purely difficult, but lacking any sort of entertainment value, are kept to a bare minimum. Perhaps the hardest stunt, and certainly the most unsuccessful, is the attempt to dub in music from off-stage while the performers are going through an intricate dance, and apparently a crisis in the plot. There is little original music; most of the songs come from old musical comedies, and are supposed to fit the current situation in the story. While there is something definitely second-rate about this, "Everything...
...middles began ominously by taking the medley relay by a healthy margin, but never got within a point of the Crimson cntil they copped the first two places in the backstroke, paced by Sailor Tom Lechner's effortless performance...