Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's modified program was, of course, the only possible one. With military and civilian budgets suddenly looking more muscular than corpulent, the most optimistic budget slicer began to wonder how Eisenhower could cut more than three billions now. Even this cut, by no means filling in the tax hole, would drain needed funds from foreign aid, the metals stockpiling program, and public works...
...diversity have seldom been equaled by any athlete, male or female. She broke two world records at the 1932 Olympics, was twice selected All-America basketball forward, has pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (in an exhibition game), and has toured the country giving billiard exhibitions. Anything that requires muscular coordination is her meat. She has excelled at tennis, swimming, diving, bowling, shot-putting, lacrosse, fencing and polo. She can type 86 words a minute and has been heard to say of her husband, George Zaharias, a 300-lb. ex-wrestler: "Yep, I threw him last night with a flying...
...might never challenge his brush, but his work is still something any sculptor could be proud of. He began in 1899, at the age of 29, and worked in fits & starts until 1930, never long enough to develop a steady style. The gleaming bronzes at the Tate alternate between muscular realism and cubist distortion, are smooth and rough, delicate and grossly bulky. Yet each reflects the Matisse eye for form...
...next day, which might have brought revolution, did not. By that time Regent Abdul Illah had summoned up his nerve and named a new Premier: Iraq's aggressive, muscular Lieut. General Nurid-din Mahmoud, 53, the army chief of staff. In a few hours armored cars and cavalry began pouring into the city; the Communists slithered away, and Baghdad quieted...
...ruins, rubble and mud-spattered patrols. The eight iron men are less convincing: they are types rather than real soldiers, e.g., the nervous G.I. (Richard Kiley), the philosophical G.I. (Nick Dennis), the amorous G.I. (Bonar Col-leano). But the film transfers the play to the screen with a muscular compactness and economy. Although it is only a minor cinematic skirmish, Eight Iron Men strikes an authentic ring of realism from the monotony of war and the soldiers' code of comradeship...