Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pardee turned the ankle half an hour before the start of Sunday's meet and didn't even warm up to make sure of his footwork before the broad jump...
...meant, of course, chiefly the Americans, whose 26,000 troops dwarf other national contingents, but he also intended to evict the NATO military headquarters in Rocquencourt, near Paris. Last week began the inevitable fencing aimed at delaying or modifying the departures. It was led off by some fancy footwork...
...parliamentary wives, former Tory Defense Minister Douglas Harkness stormed into the House to demand that Cardin prove his "statements, insinuations and allegations" or resign. "Let him go home to his wife and family and endure what we have to endure," chimed in another Tory, and only some fast political footwork headed off a no-confidence motion that might well have brought down Pearson's minority government on the spot...
...Updike's performance has been mostly footwork displaying the virtuosity of a writer who can say very little extremely well. It may be that fancy footwork is all that Updike needs now to draw a crowd. But unless the performer tries for a little more, it may always be the same crowd...
...Middle West, but he made friends easily. "He was just as quick as any man afoot," says Mrs. Myrtle Clare, a onetime postmistress, who figures briefly in his story. "Just like a flash of lightning, he was here, there, everywhere." The result of all Capote's footwork is a report, "In Cold Blood," now being serialized by The New Yorker. In January, it will be published in book form by Random House. Either way, it fulfills the novelist's ambition: it turns a routine police-beat job into a stunning study of the criminal mind...