Word: clumsier
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...Coach Donnie Butcher says that two or three other Piston players are more accurate shots. What Bing developed at Washington, D.C.'s Spin-garn High School and later at Syracuse, is the whippet-like speed and agility with which he slides past, spins around, or ducks under bigger, clumsier defenders, as he drives in for close-range lay-ups and hooks. He also has fantastic spring. When he uncoils and jumps, his hands reach twelve feet into the air, right up there with Chamberlain and Boston's Bill Russell. With such talents, Bing is inevitably in position...
...fledgling amahs have a talent for smashing the Wedgwood, the wives of British soldiers and technicians, coming from a land where servants have vanished from all but the stateliest homes, tend to be even clumsier at handling the help. Wailed one sub-lieutenant's wife who recently hired her first maid: "I don't know whether to treat her as a servant or a sister...
Then, at last, the two families got all choked up with fellow-feeling. But by then the play itself was choked with clumsy staging, clumsier plotting and pleas for tolerance. The pleas were well meant, but the tragedy seemed as ill-founded as the bigotry, and a few sharp moments were lathered into a soap opera that closed at week...
...second place, Bracken is probably the only actor in Hollywood who is clumsier, more foolish, and more completely ineffectual as a lover than the average American male. But (here's the significant point) he always gets the girl. Think of the hope this stirs in the hearts of the male population...
These days are trying ones. Midshipmen go around with eyes dreamier than usual, and with feet a whole lot clumsier. You bump into them, you step on them, you ignore them, but all in vain, for they are all up in the ozone about their coming informal hop. Nothing matters anymore. What if Osage is practically bankrupt, who cares about Lifo or Fifo, aren't they going to take a real live girl to their first Harvard dance? And so it goes, just showing you what an important event tomorrow night's affair at the Parker House is going...