Word: twitching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kansas had illegally recruited Star Halfback Bert Coan, the Big Eight stripped the proud Jayhawkers of their first conference football title in 30 years. The new champion: Missouri, which was trounced by Coan and Kansas, 23-7. ¶He had little speed and his batting swing was a convulsive twitch, but the New York Yankees' Gil McDougald was smart enough to become in his time the most versatile infielder in the majors. Last week, at 32, McDougald proved again how smart he was by quitting the game after two fading seasons (1960 average: .259) to devote himself...
...Northwest, or across the rooftops of Monaco, as in To Catch a Thief. What is offered instead is merely gruesome. The trail leads to a sagging, swamp-view motel and to one of the messiest, most nau seating murders ever filmed. At close range, the camera watches every twitch, gurgle, convulsion and hemorrhage in the process by which a living human becomes a corpse...
...rigorous training course that, among other things, requires two divers to exchange all their equipment in 15 ft. of water. The best divers are reflective, methodical men who calmly do all the right things in a jam. They need not be especially powerful-in the weightless, silent world, a twitch of a flipper can provide all the power needed. Cousteau is convinced that nearly anyone with adequate training and common sense can learn to dive with an Aqua-Lung. Says he: "Free diving is safer than motorcycling...
...sailing a dinghy is probably even trickier than sailing a twelve-meter, and a greater test of individual skill. Instead of eleven trained men ready to leap to his command, the skipper has only himself and perhaps one small shivering boy as crew. The slightest shift of weight or twitch of the tiller can make the difference between victory and defeat...