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...dance-named, oddly enough, "The Astaire"-is something like the "Shag," in which a dancer jumps from one foot to another as if trying to shake water from his ears. The teaching will be done by some 80 instructors. Astaire will do none himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dancing Feat | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...friend of ours several times removed decided that there was nothing Ted Williams had that he didn't have but a 336 lifetime batting average. In a fervent burst of House patriotism, he cut his afternoon class and panted down to Soldiers Field to shag flies for the Adams House nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Run Hitter Y' May Be But We're Puritans, Said He | 4/16/1946 | See Source »

...Dobbin Succumbs. Young Ernie, nicknamed "Shag" for his pinkish, shaggy hair, was a born listener. Too small and bashful to play much with the other kids, he liked to sit around and hear the grown ups talk. What he heard he remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ernie Pyle's War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

These were sound journalistic groundings. But when he entered Indiana University in 1919, "Shag" Pyle had not decided much about his career except that he did not want to spend his life "looking at the south end of a horse going north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ernie Pyle's War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...seemed to be working out. He had seized a country-Dutch Guiana (Surinam). He had temporarily stalemated the Japanese, at a time when every day's delay before the Japs went to war constituted a real victory for the U.S. American tanks and planes were helping the British shag the life out of the Axis troops in North Africa. The first U.S. ships bound direct-to-England, direct-to-Russia were loading cargo and guns to win the Battle of the Atlantic. Traffic on the Burma Road was up 400%. The Russians were still retreating, stubbornly, and seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Old Master | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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