Word: gymnasted
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Decades of French fiction have pictured the Parisian husband as an amatory gymnast hopping gallantly from marital bedroom to illicit boudoir. In his sixth novel, and second book to be translated into English, Henri Calet gets a fresh camera angle on the old shot. His hero, a Parisian named Thomas Schumacher, is 40, greying and deadly tired of leading the fashionable double life. He is still rather fond of the wife he has just divorced, and has come to hate the mistress who is the mother of his infant son Paul. What with shuttling regularly between the two, tired...
Ward also had a perfect day at the plate for the varsity, knocking out two of the three Crimson hits off Gymnast hurler Jack Sanford. He went one better than Sanford in the strike-out department, setting down nine to Sanford's eight...
...that U.S. troops in Europe and Korea should go back home where they came from. In the next, he implored the rest of the world to "help the American people out of the isolation in which they are being kept." But it was Ringmaster Stalin's favorite literary gymnast, Author Ilya Ehrenburg, who brought down the house with a faultless demonstration of how to say one thing while meaning another...
...will probably run into good pitching, for both of its opponents have already defeated Yale. In today's contest, Gymnast coach Archie Allen plans to start either righthander Jim Pelcher, who allowed the Elis only two hits on April 17th, or Hank Tominaga, a diminutive Hawaiian southpaw with a good fast ball and curve...
Springfield has won several more games than it has lost, but mainly because of the weak competition it has met in the local Massachusetts colleges. The Gymnast five is a fast-breaking, medium-height team, which uses a shifting man-to-man defense...