Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time a lot of things were looking up-were fine as frog's hair. The spring-legged, limber-armed postwar baseball players seemed amazing (see SPORT). So did the first few of the shiny new cars and taxicabs. Nobody really wanted to argue with Father Divine's most widely quoted conclusion. It had just taken time to get used...
...quality Housman always lacked-the pure genius for simple, limber speech, untroubled by literature. But all that can be done by lyric inspiration under literary control he did in such a poem...
...With the 1945-46 season a month old, some 85% of the National Hockey League's servicemen stars are on ice again. Most of them have Canadian Army discharges; some of them, muscle-stiffened from too much army-style road work, will need another week or two to limber up. Prospective result: the end of the Montreal Canadiens' honeymoon...
Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer's model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom's furlough schedule: having his tonsils...
...Johnny-come-lately to show business, Broadway's limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...