Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago she wrote the last three pages of the book, a nuts-to-soup course of creativity she customarily follows because "I have to know how it's going to end; beginnings are just like pulling straws." She filled in the rest in "batches and binges" in Baton Rouge, La., Yaddo and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Reno, Denver, Hollywood, Manhattan, Roxbury, Conn., last month finished up in a glass-enclosed sun porch that overlooks the harbor in Pigeon Cove, Mass. by adding 20 words to the final page...
...warmup children's concert with the Boston Pops back on the Charles the day before), he shook hands with his concertmaster and then with most of the rest of the 104 pieces, broke up the audience by portraying a maestro with a psychosomatic itch, employing a flyswatter baton for Flight of the Bumble...
Trouble was, the Moscow meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union, a collection of solemn sports buffs who run U.S. amateur athletics with all the imagination of benighted medieval seigneurs. Riding herd over 16 sports from track and field to baton twirling, these stern defenders of amateur purity bristle when outsiders presume to promote so much as a friendly basketball game,* have often been described as "neither amateur, nor athletic, nor a union...
...band broke into a number that goes, "Indonesia is free-cha cha cha." Sukarno grabbed Nina Khrushchev for a partner. Nikita leaped up himself, waggled through a few steps, took a bongo drum and thumped it for a while. Then he seized Sukarno's silverheaded marshal's baton and began leading the band. Sukarno said he would expect some new Soviet credits in return...
...down Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and in and out of 35 design houses last week hiked Mrs. Opal Ligon, the "better dress" buyer for Goudchaux's, the best department store in Baton Rouge, La. Mrs. Ligon's pilgrimage was duplicated about 4,000 other buyers who crowded into the fashion shows and showrooms to buy the clothes that U.S. women will wear this fall. Like most of her colleagues, she cut through the razzmatazz and made swift, sharp decisions...