Word: limbering
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...inspection tour through the tall cane country outside Havana, Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro, 33, decided to limber up his strong arm, took over pitching chores in a sandlot baseball game, carelessly allowed a runner to steal second. The incensed pitcher imperiously motioned the man back to first, delivered the shortest oration of his reign. "In the revolution," cried Castro, "stealing is not permitted-even in baseball...
...limber, goateed adventurer who in a few dizzy years had skyrocketed from postal clerk to world figure, Tshombe had only a terse epitaph: "The fuss over this evil man will soon die down. The people have no memories here. C'est fini...
Opening the Phoenix Theater's eighth season, the Tyrone Guthrie production of H.M.S. Pinafore slapped salt freshness into Gilbert and Sullivan. Though bold as always, Director Guthrie in no sense threw out the baby with the bilgewater. He is too lustily stage-minded not to want to limber up the D'Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck...
...touted Chicago go-go attack to molasses. The whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman Nellie Fox (7 double plays...
...Southern Century. As the years stiffen his knee joints, notes Dobie, Webb's "intellectual movements" become ever more "flexible and limber." Two years ago in a Harper's Magazine piece titled "The American West: Perpetual Mirage," Webb pointed out the "one overwhelming fact which 17 states have been trying to hide for the last century": "The heart of the West is a desert" both geographically and culturally...