Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern era" in Melbourne's Olympic stadium could not erase international frictions and political embarrassments. But the worldwide contest of men against men, against time and against records, was under way despite wars and tensions. Competitors who had traveled half around the world to test their grace and strength and speed and skill looked up at a bold, white sign on the big Scoreboard and smiled at its airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis is not recognized." When a man wears his country's colors in competition, beating an opponent takes on added meaning; individual...
Sprinter Bobby Joe Morrow, 21, who grew up on a lazy little cotton and carrot farm outside San Benito, Texas, glided down the cinder straightaway with such easy grace that he seemed to be running no faster than he had to. It was fast enough to win the 100-meter dash...
This week, some six years and several world records later. Air Force Lieutenant William Parry O'Brien Jr., a strong and strapping (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) giant of 24, walks into the center of Melbourne's main Olympic stadium to defend with his brawny grace his reign as world's champion shotputter...
...what has attracted attention to Simone Weil, more than her sometimes foolish, sometimes heroic life, is her inner struggle, on which she reported in books such as Waiting for God, Gravity and Grace. Her Notebooks, now published in English for the first time, are probably the most personal account of that struggle. If some of the jottings in these two volumes make her seem like the lead scout of the troubled lost battalion of agnosticism, many more confirm a rare and remarkable religious vocation...
...usual, the chorus dominates the production and, in this case, typifies its vigor and beautiful clumsiness. The fairies, while retaining their mock grace throughout, have enough individuality of feature to be genuinely comic, rather than a mere weary shuffling crowd. And the Peers manage to retain their stiff upper lips almost all the time, but fortunately not quite all the time. (Besides, they manage some very nice harmonies.) Richard Grand, the stage director, keeps them moving just enough to keep things lightsome...