Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite his dialectical footwork, the jury at week's end decided against Laski. This time the little professor would pay for the privilege of lecturing: the jury found he had not been libeled, the court assigned him the costs...
...calmly practiced putting on the hole just finished. On every difficult approach shot he walked up for a look ahead; on trap and green shots he sometimes went up to see how the shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...
Rockne took his teams to both coasts and to the Gulf. The annual game with Army became one of football's classics. Talk about the tough Irish schedules, Rockne's half-time orations, his famed Four Horsemen, his theatrical shift and the fancy footwork of Notre Dame backfields topped all football talk in the '20s. Gate receipts went up (last year, after carrying deficits from other sports, Notre Dame netted $240,000 from football)-and so did some new college buildings...
...taking lightly this new influence on American affairs. The Russian experience may be only the first of many encounters that this product of Puritan stock will have with the earthy give and take of modern diplomatic intercourse. Insiders say that at Moscow he seemed to be learning the footwork and may be able to go through succeeding rounds without mishap. It is likely he will be given further chance. Thus the Conant star has risen to levels where it can reflect over locales as widely separated as San Francisco and Washington. Los Alamos and Moscow. As far as the public...
Eight war-rusty U.S. players and four Canadians paired off last week at Manhattan's swank Racquet & Tennis Club for the first National Doubles Championships since 1941. Everybody's footwork and timing was off. But prewar champion Bobby Grant was still one of the most paralyzing hitters the game had ever known. Teamed with Clarence Pell Jr., he whacked shots that nobody even saw until too late, won easily from Richard Leonard and Joe Brooks (see cut) in the finals...