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Word: lightfooted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lithe and lightfoot under the bright summer sun, the matador waited impatiently while the banderillas were planted. Then, with a series of spectacular redondos, slow, cape-twirling passes that prolonged the moment of peril, he prepared his bull for the kill. From the high-banked tiers of the arena at Málaga, Spaniards cracked out their drumfire oles. "Si!" his fans shouted at Luis Miguel Dominguin, "tú, el primero [yes, you're the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: iQui | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Lightfoot Fred Astaire, who triumphed in his NBC song-and-dance show last fall, comes back to television in a straight acting part. His vehicle: Man on a Bicycle, a comedy about a gallant rogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Angus) Lightfoot Walker, 47, was elected president and chief executive officer of Rheem Manufacturing Co., maker of steel containers, heating equipment, military aircraft components, etc. (1955 annual sales: $161 million). "Gus" Walker succeeds Richard S. Rheem, who becomes chairman of the board, is first non-family man to be president. Born in Newport, England, Walker was raised in Australia, got an engineering degree at Sydney University. After two jobs as a sales engineer, he joined Rheem in Australia in 1937. Nine years later he was transferred to New York, became executive assistant to the president, later vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Oct. 8, 1956 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Surprising things happen in the name of God in Washington's Griffith Stadium when Elder Lightfoot Solomon ("Happy am I") Michaux holds "services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: WJSV! | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...former New York City councilman, was immediately taken to Pittsburgh to serve a 60-day contempt-of-court sentence. The others were rearrested on charges of knowingly being members of a party dedicated to violent overthrow of the Government, a charge first tested by the Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago last month, and released in $5,000 bail. The five were: Eugene Dennis, 50, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; John Gates, 42, former Daily Worker editor; John B. Williamson. 52, former party labor secretary; Jacob A. Stachel, 55, former educational director; Carl Winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Out (Temporarily?) | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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