Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuff. A muscle-rippling 6 ft., 190 lbs., he has none of the herky-jerky, elbow-popping moves that invariably send fastballers to the showers?or the osteopath. Rather he has a kind of loose, flowing grace that allows him to snap off a high, hard one with seemingly effortless ease. After dipping into a deep windup, he cocks his right knee to his shoulder, rears back until the ball is almost touching the ground behind him and then, in a whipping overhand motion, smokes it across the plate. "Vida has three things going for him," says Oakland Catcher Dave...
...years sleep researchers have suspected-in the face of considerable doubt-that learning during slumber is a possibility. Now scientists have come up with what they believe to be the first clear-cut evidence that such effortless learning can take place...
Such moments are infrequent. On a talk show that really lives or dies on the quality of the conversation, Cavett conducts the chatter at a brisk tempo and with a sense of timing and effortless whimsy that can fracture a guest as well as an audience. Once Norman Mailer teased Cavett about Rival David Frost. When Mailer rose a moment later, a book fell from his pocket. Quipped Cavett: "You dropped your copy of Dale Carnegie." Last week, after Cavett Idol Groucho Marx had trespassed repeatedly on Truman Capote's attempts to complete a sentence, Cavett asked Groucho...
Henry's lack of character has been concealed by layers of that splendid raiment, money. But, alas, Henry has dipped into principal twice too often, and now all he has left is his red Ferrari and his gentleman's gentleman Harold (George Rose). There are but two effortless avenues to wealth. One is inheritance-and Henry has used that up. The other avenue is marriage-followed by inheritance...
...Americans will ever leave, but that they will spend so much money that inflation will make it impossible for these lower-middle echelon functionaries to continue to live like kings. And, after all, isn't that what colonialism is all about-turning an accident of nationality in to permanent effortless profit...