Word: flexing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...present, said the doctors, the new finger has good color, good circulation. The child cannot flex it completely, but it is gradually growing more limber. And it looks more like a finger every...
...Russia, that Baltic power, was ready to flex her muscles. On National Navy Day there were demonstrations, maneuvers, parades on all Russia's seas. People's Commissar for Navy Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov declared that 168 new Russian "warships"-many of which may be mosquito torpedo boats, which the Russians love-would be launched this year; and newspapers boasted that soon the Red Navy would be second to none other...
...tangle in the only way to avoid sentimentality or unpremeditated farce-Rims crawled back through his wife's bedroom window. Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein's otherwise brilliant script would have done well to follow the play. Instead it sends Father Halevy into unsuitable heroics, makes Rims flex his moral muscle, resolve to fight on to victory because his wife is going to have a baby...