Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interpretations of Chausson, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Ysaÿe. He took eight more curtain calls, played three encores. The critics next day were equally enthusiastic. Glowed La Nazione Italiana: "A tremendous violinist. His tone is of exceptional power . . . His left hand has the agility of a rope dancer...
...fight time approached, the champ began to loosen up. Pacing up & down the room, throwing in a quick skip-step before each turn, he began kidding with Papa and Manager George Gainford, was soon talking baseball and skipping an imaginary rope. By the time he walked down the aisle to the ring, jogging rhythmically to some inner melody, the atmosphere of tension and strained horseplay was gone. From the instant the bell sounded, Sugar Ray Robinson was the master craftsman who knew just what he was doing-the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world...
...Central Sporting Club, where Sugar gets seriously down to work: three minutes of shadow boxing; six rounds of boxing, two with each of three sparring partners; three minutes with the body bag, and three with the light punching bag. In a final three minutes with the skip rope, Robinson goes into a spring-legged jitterbug routine that would spring the cartilages of most boxers...
...Tight-Rope Business. A fierce individualist, Rentschler fights shy of Government-financed expansion, is currently spending $40 million on expansion from United's own funds. "There's a lot of difference if you're using your own money or playing with someone else's," he says. "The one thing that would destroy our country's leadership in the air would be for Government to take a dominant part. I've seen that happen in other countries. France dominated the air in the First World War . . . then the government stepped...
...tight-rope business, Rentschler is far from infallible. "We naturally make mistakes," says he, "but we have the guts and sense to make it go the next time." For example, the Wasp Majors in Boeing's Stratocruisers developed a long list of bugs when put into service. United went methodically to work to help eliminate them, and offered to provide replacement parts for the four lines using Stratocruisers. One line (United) got $1,200,000 worth of free parts. At home with his family, Rentschler relaxes-like an engine idling. He usually takes a Martini or two before dinner...