Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another week of busy marching and jockeying resulted in little net headway for the McCarthy v. Army investigation. But the footwork was typically intense...
Preparing for his debut as a song-and-dance man in a big benefit show, Sir Laurence Olivier studiously twirled a cane and practiced his footwork in a London gymnasium, where veteran musicomedy Hoofer Jack Buchanan pronounced the actor an apt but self-conscious pupil...
This shifting political footwork makes him just as unpredictable in his view of the Republican Administration. Lawrence alternates between referring to President Eisenhower's "tragic plight" and hailing his economic proposals as the most "dynamic from an economic viewpoint [that have] ever been brought forth." His harshest words are for the "socalled liberals, New Deal writers, left-wingers" and Democrats who were "blind to the Communist menace...
...lightweight jabbed, jabbed at the bag, crossed with a solid right, and then headed for the showers practicing his footwork all the way. As he left the Blockhouse's third floor boxing room, another boxer danced in and asked, "Hey, kid, you wanta work out a little...
...Crimson forward line made a meager total of three shots during the entire first half. The halfbacks were working well however, Carrie MacIntosh played an excellent game, bewildering his defenders with his shifty footwork and sharp dribbling. Denny Little, at center, and Bob Dean at right were standouts on defense, and with MacIntosh managed to keep the ball in Yale territory for a good portion of the game...