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Word: footwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although both teams exhibited fancy footwork and accurate passing, Yale proved the better balanced aggregation with a rugged defense and swift forward line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters End Mediocre Year With 2-0 Loss to Eli; Break Three Season Victory Streak Over Yale | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Unlike other arts, ballet dancing never gets deep into psychological whys & wherefores. Ballet seldom expresses tragic ideas or describes serious situations. Its dancers are graceful athletes; its subjects usually fairy tales, quaint boy-&-girl situations, gentle vaudevillian satires. Some rebellious dancers, pining for more significant footwork, have balked at ballet's limitations. First of the rebels was the late great U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, who took to stage dancing like a Baptist to water, discarded ballet's fouettes and entrechats for natural movements, its powder-puff skirts for Greek robes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Intellectual Dance | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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