Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mich., there was plenty to watch. Slim (155 Ibs.), tall (5 ft. 11½ in.), and still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with a skill that juniors seldom have had time to learn...
...charity toward others' faults seems to have been as effortless as breathing: "God has been very gracious to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards; if I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person...
...Smith combines a good reporter's facts with a good writer's style. Smith himself thinks of column-writing as a kind of architectural exercise. "Give me," he has said, "my daily plinth, and I figure to do all right." Despite the smooth and seemingly effortless result, Smith works as hard at writing as if he were chipping marble. Says he: "It comes out with little drops of blood...
Captain Hilliard Hughes put up the best Crimson showing in the first six singles, winning the first set, 6-2, from Tarheel number two man Charley Rice. Rice's effortless style began telling, however, as Hughes dropped the next...
...abstract grace of "Swan Lake" requires faultless dancing to be truly successful. Its movements are classically simple, and the chaste costumes and Tschaikowsky's subdued music offer little distraction. Alexandra Danilova, as the swan queen, unfortunately, lacks some of the effortless, completely-controlled action that is demanded of her. Mlle. Danilova's dancer, Frederic Franklin, is also occasionally ungainly. The corps de ballet proves to be technically capable, although not distinguished...