Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naturally to a spectacle-loving public that few people ever think to question its necessity or its form. Yet there it was, with all the oomph and oompah, the crashing brass, the flights of unwitting comic relief, the displays of acrobatics, the precision marching, the dimpled knees and limber legs, the earnest faces of the young people who had come from all over the nation...
...cartoon for the sports page, he found a little space left over and filled it with FOOLISH QUESTION No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he was hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...
...agreement believe that Harvard students can be given a chance to practice the slalom on the banks of the Charles. The footbridge over Soldiers Field Road is being fitted as an ice-skating rink, and the sidewalks near Kresge are being left covered with snow so that students can limber up by dodging cars in the street. The pile of snow blocking the gate to the parking lot will be left for people to use as a ski jump. Such cooperation between the University and state authorities is indeed a good omen. Perhaps the sycamores along Memorial Drive...
...thinking of two others. Individualists down to their physical characteristics, great surgeons show that even their skilled hands need be of no particular design. Like a pianist's, they may be long and slender or broad and powerful. Dr. Moore's are of medium proportions, kept limber by playing piano duets with his children on paired Steinway grands...
...most part, Caroline Kennedy, 4, sat rapt and on her best behavior as she and her mother* watched Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet limber up for their evening show at Washington's Capitol Theater. She curtsied politely to Ballet Master Asaf Messerer and shook hands with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who looked pretty funny in her woolly leg-warmers. But two hours of Bolshoi can be tough on the best behaved little girl, and Caroline got a mite fidgety. She struggled out of her pink sweater, kicked her red Mary Janes back and forth, wriggled up into Mama...