Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow who likes to collect lipstick. Between snarling and nuzzling, they help the Army put on a show in a G.I. auditorium whose elaborate stage could pass for that of Radio City Music Hall. It all falls into a tired pattern, but there are compensations: the stars' dependable footwork, a bright spoof of Air Force life, and plenty of fresh clowning by Comedian Danny Thomas...
...Hollingsworth's knowledge, the Law School is the only one in the country that has such a group organized. Other Law students do footwork and may even try cases for the poor, but do so under sanction of a professional aid group or individual lawyer...
...rounds La Motta worked like a man in a doze: his footwork was sluggish, his left, normally sharp and stabbing, had neither punch nor pep. Twice the referee had to step in to tell Jake to fight. In the 14th round, the Frenchman jarred him with a right cross that almost floored the 29-year-old champion for the first time in his ring career...
...their third fight and the honors were even. In their first, attacking with hand-grenade punches, Saddler had won by a fourth-round knockout. Willie had won the second, a 15-round decision, by his own superb combination of light, windmill jabs, dodging footwork and his uncanny ability to shove, nudge and push his opponent off balance. For the third go last week, the fans thought they knew pretty much what to expect; the smart money was on youth and Sandy Saddler's hand grenades...
...University, Keyserling went to Harvard Law School. From there he entered the murky Washington labyrinth by way of Henry Wallace's AAA. He helped frame the Wagner Act. He worked his way onward & upward through the Housing agencies. He mastered the gobbledygook of economic language and the fast footwork needed for intramural debate. He learned to jump out from behind corners, making Keynesian faces at businessmen. In 1946, with a boost from Harry Truman, he landed on the newly constituted...