Word: footwork
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...ring four years, hard little Barney Ross, 32, was still all right in defense and attack, and his footwork was wonderful. He was a Marine private on Guadalcanal. In the jungle at about sundown, Private Ross looked up and beheld an advance guard of Japs approaching. "They got no more than ten yards away," he said later, "and everybody started firing and scattering." Ross got two wounded men into a shell hole and dived into a six-foot crater. Three other men joined him, one of them wounded in the knee. The prize fighter started throwing grenades...
Gentleman Jim (Warner) is a fight fan's meat and a thumping good show. It films some of the best boxing scenes ever shown on the screen. As Gentleman Jim Corbett, the San Francisco bank clerk who introduced footwork and Shakespeare to the ring and knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 immortal rounds, Errol Flynn flashes the fanciest left Hollywood has produced. Warners has surrounded him with the hilarious rowdyism of the prizefighting game in the '903, including a superb performance by Ward Bond as the great John L. himself...
...feature of Dorothy Donegan's swing piano playing is her footwork. Newcomers at Elmer's Cocktail Lounge sometimes swear that she has a drum concealed under the piano. She has not. That incessant triple-fortissimo thud that punctuates Dorothy's improvisations comes simply from Dorothy's ample feet, hitting the floor boards in loud, unconscious ecstasy...
...dodge the Army's ban on all aircraft-company interim reports, both companies did some fancy footwork: United cagily labeled itself "a Navy contractor." Aviation Corp. wriggled through the loophole exempting all companies which have less than one-third their total business in finished planes...
Henry Lamar, boxing coach, continues to head the pugilistic program. At the beginning of the summer term, the men were limited to practicing fundamental punches and footwork; but now, after a few pointers at the beginning of each session, they pair off according to weight and go through four or five rounds of fighting...