Word: limberer
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...constabulary rounded up Moro outlaws who seized on the panic for raids on unprotected villages. But against the real juramentados there was nothing to do except keep trigger fingers limber. No one could say which Moro might suddenly run amuck, or where...
Only two men, Joe Murphy and John Bronk (the "Bronk"), a former trainer, claim to have worked the speedometer on the up-hill stationary bicycle up to fifty miles an hour, but many a bored athlete of renown has spent hours toiling along at 10 m.p.h. to limber up a stiff muscle...
...moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty low for a safe jump, even with parachutes which open very quickly. Most of the squad had made ten or twelve jumps before. They were...
...keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
...present, said the doctors, the new finger has good color, good circulation. The child cannot flex it completely, but it is gradually growing more limber. And it looks more like a finger every...