Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's free skating is judged on originality as well as execution. In the compulsory figures, the performers are required to do a set routine, and it is judged on both form and perfection of the figures, which are carefully examined afterwards. In Button's Olympic victory last week he...
The governor has had his dander up ever since the state's school system came under legal fire about a year ago from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A federal district court in Charleston ordered an improvement in school facilities for Negroes, but found nothing...
Discussing the maneuver with which he finished his free skating figures, Button said, "Doing the triple loop was as big a thrill to me as winning my first Olympic championship, let alone the second."
"The less experienced . . . attribute our deft gifts of maneuver to diabolical cunning, masquerading as stupidity. The more experienced realize that . . . our diplomatic tactics [have] been governed by what ... is really an infinite capacity for adjustment to changing proportions of power."
As the French explained it, this oddly timed maneuver was merely a pat on the back for ambitious Gilbert Grandval. Angrily, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced that German participation in the European Army would be impossible until the Saar's future is settled. Then he added a trouble-stirring...