Word: footwork
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...break a 39-year-old mark. Cardinal pitchers had an earned-run average of 4.29 (v. 3.77 for the Yanks), and Star Reliever Barney Schultz staggered through the Series with an ERA of 18. But St. Louis won-and with the most exciting display of guts, guile and footwork since the old Gashouse Gang of the 1930s...
...earthbound Nijinsky who can entrechat her way across a stage in half-inch leaps. Footwork is needlework to Bea-she crochets with her toes. If playgoers dare to laugh at her outlandishly comic bits of business, she freezes upon them the look of an embalmed codfish until they burst out laughing all over again. Her costumes are designed by the Mad Hatter...
Despite Liston's injury, Clay's victory was no fluke; the quick and classy Clay was more than a match for Liston. He obviously carried rounds one, four and six with a combination of dazzling footwork, and a hall of deceptive jabs...
...takes fast footwork to keep up with the latest in theological fashions. Jargon changes, as theologians change, says the Rev. Karl Parker, executive director of the Association of Churches of Greater Houston. "It used to be 'atmosphere.' Then it became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much...
...armful: a new contest, a new "space-age" comic strip, a dog column "that interprets barks with a bite." The Post, which had more than doubled its circulation to 750,000 by returning to print three weeks before the others, made little effort to match its rivals' fancy footwork and slipped quietly back to third in the three-paper P.M. race...