Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss St. Denis is now in her late sixties--an age at which most dancers would prefer to sit quietly in the dark. Happily, however, a great many of her dances involve very little footwork and age has not yet withered Miss St. Denis' talented and talkative hands. All of the dances performed in this concert were executed with the hands and, usually, a piece of cloth...
...Court. The Navy got its full day in open court after one of its most noted fighting men did some quick footwork in the dark. Captain John Crommelin (who is eligible to become a rear admiral in December) had charged that the Navy was "being nibbled to death in the Pentagon" by "landlocked" strategists. His unruly blast had created only a short stir (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, more than ever determined to get a formal investigation of his charges, John Crommelin took more desperate action...
...didn't keep my guard up all the time," Railroader Robert R. Young once said, "those goddammed bankers would scalp me in a minute." Last week, with a characteristic bit of footwork and his guard still high, scrappy little Bob Young pranced into the center of the ring looking like an investment banker himself...
From the sprinting, it might have been a heavy duty track meet. From the attention to footwork and timing, it might have been ballet practice. From the instructors' caps, it might have been baseball...
After ten years of agile legal footwork, Paramount Pictures, Inc. last week tossed in the sponge in its antitrust fight with the Justice Department. It approved a consent decree agreeing to split itself into two separate companies, one to make and distribute movies, the other to operate theaters...