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...back. My word, I forgot about that. Getting dark. Awfully tired. Will limber up. Ralph will too. Good old Ralph will carry the load. Won't you? Cramp you say? Hideous creature...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

Woops! There it goes again. The first division, the American balloon tire, no gear, bikes just left. My stomach feels tight, but I'm calm. I'll limber...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...ambitious young college graduate, a working knowledge of Culbertson on Contract, and a limber swing off the seventh too would clearly be more advantageous than whatever he can remember of English Villages in the Thirteenth Century, and his hard-earned skill in step tests. Harvard's avowed objective is to produce "whole men," and "well-rounded members of society"--here is the administration's golden opportunity to accomplish this goal...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...were what they threw. Nor was either of them beyond trying incautious righthand leads. It made a fine, bloody brawl. And DeMarco came close to finishing it in the seventh, when he clobbered the champ with a left hook to the jaw. Basilio's legs began a limber, loose-kneed dance of their own; his eyes emptied and his seconds screamed for him to go down, to take a count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Brawl | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...great thing about Walter Alston is that he endures. The Bronx cheers of second-guessing fans bounce off his hide, and needling from his limber-lipped predecessor Charlie Dressen does not faze him at all. His patience is paying off: he has built a team of winners out of last year's so-so Brooklyn Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gentleman | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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