Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ballet collecting autographs. Now she is a veteran soloist, a fine comedienne in Stars and Stripes and Western Symphony. Her role as Queen of the Amazons in Midsummer Night's Dream was type casting; she is the tallest (5 ft. 7½ in.) girl in the troupe. Thick-legged and saucer-eyed, she is a steady, remarkably effortless performer whose spectacular leaps put some of the male dancers to shame. "Gloria is beautiful and strong like a Clydesdale horse!" says Balanchine. "Her leg extension spans light-years...
...boot was good and low, near the left hand corner. With a powerful kick of his left leg, Childs leapt to his right on his side--not his stomach. He blocked the kick and gained possession of the ball before it reached the chalk...
...Saturday's 48-0 loss to Dartmouth with serious problems are end Ken Boyda, with a knee injury to go with his almost permanent shoulder problem; quarterback Tom Bilodean, still bothered by a painful charley horse; and tackle Steve Diamond, who played only 13 minutes because of leg and shoulder trouble...
John McCluskey, too has shaken off the effects of a persistent leg injury and should be ready to go at top speed today...
...meteoric success as a banker even before he entered international politics. Yet Markings shows that every step of the way he was dogged by agonizing self-doubts and despair. "Time goes by," he noted, "reputation increases, ability declines." "The little urchin makes a couple of feeble hops on one leg without falling down," he wrote, "and is filled with admiration at his dexterity, doubly so, because there are onlookers. Do we ever grow up?" He was unsparingly self-critical: "If you don't speak ill of others more often than you do, this certainly isn't from...