Word: limberer
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...Kenary, Hal Moffle, Chip Gannon, and Shafer took turns in the signal drills running the offense. After Tuesday's long passing drills, more attention was paid to the running game, but all the regular passers threw enough to keep their arms limber and their eyes accurate...
...Mencken, who cares for nobody, except for the laughs, the whole race looked satisfactorily scandalous. He described President Truman as a "shabby mountebank," Tom Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 77, a limber-tongued front-page regular when he was Oklahoma's tobacco-stained Governor in the early '30s, got some publicity after a long drought. He broke into the New York Times twice: 1) when the paper referred to him as "the late 'Alfalfa Bill'"; 2) when it had to correct itself, admit that he was still alive & kicking...
...with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting on a rolling...
...best idea I ever heard," declared freewheeling, limber-tongued Irish Novelist Liam O'Flaherty in Paris, "was to wipe out all the women in the world. Then man could stop working entirely. There is plenty of food & drink left for all of us until...