Word: juggler
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...Sidney Albert, 50, the fast-talking financial juggler who took over ill-starred Bellanca Corp. less than three years ago, quit as president in the midst of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the company's financial reports. Trading his family's rubber-machinery business for control of Bellanca. Albert went on a stock-swapping spree that turned the small aircraft partsmaker into a grab bag of 70 firms, and helped push its stock from $4.37 a share to $30.50 a share within a few months (TIME. June 25, 1956). The stock plummeted last year...
...Juggler Technique. Element 102 disintegrated so fast that a major problem was to prove that it had been created at all. The scientists developed a technique that would have done credit to a team of Japanese jugglers. After the curium had been bombarded for about 20 minutes, the Swedes shut down the cyclotron. As the concrete shield opened, a group of scientists, wearing gloves and dust masks against radioactivity, dashed into the cyclotron chamber. One snatched the target from the machine, another took it apart and passed it to a third, who extracted the catcher foil. The fastest runner, generally...
...team members why they went undefeated, and to a man they will point to McCurdy as the chief motivating factor--McCurdy, the master of psychology, the champion juggler, the spiritual leader who could get the most out of his personnel. To them, he was the biggest factor in their success story, one of the finest in Harvard athletics...
...specialization, he refuses to stay put in any cultural pigeonhole. He is a Mickey Mantle of music, a brilliant switch hitter, conducting with his right hand and composing with his left?not to mention several other occupations that would be full-time careers for other men. Like a juggler whose oranges have suddenly acquired a demonic will of their own, Bernstein today finds himself with five careers in the air at once...
Lines like that numbed the funnybones of Allen's pre-World War I audiences. When he wasn't twanging out patter, he pyramided cigar boxes on his chin and twirled hats through the air as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler." At times he also did a ventriloquist's bit with a dummy named Jake. He had outdistanced the drag-off hooks with which managers yanked booed performers into the wings, but he was still patronizingly tagged as a "coast defender," i.e., a smalltime vaudevillian who played only Boston and such outlying provinces as Maine...