Word: runaround
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...musical (which was based on Thornton Wilder's farce The Matchmaker). It is woven from a solitary yarn. Matchmaker Dolly Levi sets great store by Horace Vandergelder's feed and grain store and decides to snare him for her own. She does. Curtain. In between their coy runaround, tiny complications arise. None of them matter, but several are the premises for blithe and sumptuous dance numbers. The most kinetic, Dancing, is happily reminiscent of the old MGM musical It's Always Fair Weather, starring a couple of guys named Gene Kelly and Michael Kidd...
...managed to umpire one game at the sub-minors National Baseball Congress in Wichita, Kan. Since then, however, she has been given nothing but the runaround. New York-Penn's President Vincent McNamara rejected her first application because of the lack of adequate facilities for women and the language used by players. When she threatened to take her case to the Human Rights Division, McNamara relented-only to be overruled by Piton...
...being given a runaround," he said. "Frankly, our people are disgusted...
...most widespread abuse, however, is an old sucker play that might be called the double reverse runaround. Each network runs a post-game show that reports final scores of other contests and, like everything else in TV, the advertising revenue for these "wrap-ups" is dependent upon ratings. Thus in the fourth quarter of a televised football game, announcers conveniently neglect to give the scores of other games lest they discourage viewers from staying tuned for the wrapup...
Still lighting torches in what looks like a vain effort to convince the National Aeronautics and Space Agency that she should be the first woman in a space capsule, Aviatrix Jerrie Cobb, 31, told a Washington women's club that she was being given the runaround. The Russians, she said, may soon launch a Mongolian woman into orbit ("They are a small, hardy race used to high altitudes"), while the first space-bound U.S. female may be a chimpanzee. "There's a $1,000,000 budget for a place called Chimp College, New Mexico," said the angry Jerrie...