Word: limber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touted Chicago go-go attack to molasses. The whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman Nellie Fox (7 double plays...
...Southern Century. As the years stiffen his knee joints, notes Dobie, Webb's "intellectual movements" become ever more "flexible and limber." Two years ago in a Harper's Magazine piece titled "The American West: Perpetual Mirage," Webb pointed out the "one overwhelming fact which 17 states have been trying to hide for the last century": "The heart of the West is a desert" both geographically and culturally...
Among no-words, all-jazz editions, Guitarist Mundell Lowe and a seven-man group are effective in a Camden album that has the musicians swinging in long, limber lines of nicely muted sound. The most imaginative Porgy is supplied by Trumpeter Miles Davis on a Columbia LP arranged by Gil Evans; in this case the Gershwin themes serve only as a departure point, usually for attenuated Davis solo nights...
Some reflected the temper of the times ?a shock-haired Texan receiving a Broadway ticker-tape welcome for winning a piano competition in Moscow, a limber Australian methodically breaking records for the mile. Still other scenes were charmingly sentimental ? the heir to an ancient throne promising himself in marriage to a commoner he first met on a tennis court, the new, young head of a populous religious sect resuming his daily classes at Harvard...
...lookout, will go a long way to study a new dance. Their current specialty, researched in the Caribbean: the stiff-legged merengue, an old folk dance that some say got a new lease on life after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo was injured in a car accident, could not limber up to the beguine or bolero...