Word: scamperings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gerry Emmet, after narrowly losing his first game in extra points, came back dramatically to win his match in four games. Emmet's combination of delicate drop shots and slashing aisle shots allowed him to retain control of the center of the court, while the Midshipman was obliged to scamper around...
...Shortstop Luis Aparicio, 25, and quick-handed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, the best double-play combination in baseball; and Centerfielder Jim Landis, 25, one of the fastest fly chasers in the business. Under Manager Al Lopez' fatherly hand, the hitless-wonder White Sox, young and old alike, scamper the bases with glee, turn so cool in the clutch that they have won 31 of 41 one-run games. Says President Bill Veeck: "We connive, scrounge and hustle to get just one measly run. We can't afford to give any away...
...Hearn designed for the Cambridge Drama Festival's shows in Sanders Theatre. High up, Lester Polakov (whose costumes add much to the general lightness and brightness) has affixed a number of white, stylized orange-tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where Malvolio discovers the faked letter, Berghof has a whole crew of people costumed as animals and perches them in the treetops with all manner of animal noise-makers to razz Malvolio (one of them even hits Malvolio with the contents...
...trains run on time, nightclubs have reopened, and little boys and girls scamper along the cobbled banks of the Danube. Just now, the country swarms with Austrian and German hunters who pay up to $1,200 for the privilege of shooting at the local stags. But at the airport Hungarian troops are all over the place. And Hungarian troops certainly are not the only ones around the city. The Soviets are still there. The invaders' tanks and heavily armed soldiers no longer man the streets and bridges. They are camped now in the hills of Buda...
...course, for one reason or another, he and the lady, her husband's nephew and a lady's maid, the husband himself, and a family friend with four innocent golden-haired daughters, are all cheek-by-jowl or better in a Paris fleabag. Upstairs and down they scamper, in and out of rooms they dash, till the gendarmes come rushing in at the second-act curtain...