Word: flexing
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...helping hands of Corwin and Welles were not proffered without a little arm-twisting from Markle. He peppered Corwin with mail, and when Corwin was in Toronto, played recorded shows for him. Corwin, enthusiastic and polite, got CBS interested in Markle, who was given a chance to flex his muscles on three Columbia Workshop dramas last summer. Then, with Corwin's backing, he joined the network...
...weeks ago, Joe's handlers, unable to find him someone to fight, got to thinking of all the unexplored territory outside the U.S. where people might pay just to see Joe flex his muscles. Joe put on his best deadpan mask for the benefit of strangers, and headed for Latin America. At Mexico City, in an exhibition, he carefully pulled his punches for ten rounds against Arturo Godoy, who had once lasted 15 rounds in the ring against Joe. Both got booed (fans who knowingly pay to see an "exhibition" hopefully expect to see a fight...
First came a whiplike crack. The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself...
Camp officials denied that the WACs were involved in the escape plot. Husky German prisoners who volunteer to do maintenance work at the skyhigh, isolated training center, go around stripped to the waists, love to inflate their chests, flex their muscles, and kid with the WACs. In the opinion of Camp Hale's baffled officials the susceptible WACs were guilty, at worst, of springtime indiscretion...
Miss Bergman was an only child. Her mother died when she was three. Her father, a big, merry, popular photographer-artist, who liked to flex his basso in the bathtub, hoped his daughter would become an opera star, and early accustomed her to the enjoyment of routines before cameras. Ingrid was deeply attached to her father, but even before he died, when she was 13, she was much alone and without playmates. As soon as she learned to walk, and about as naturally, she learned her famous self-sufficiency and intactness. And she learned the thing that made it possible...