Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asylum dance. On one side of the hall the women are lined up, coquettish in spite of their drabness; on the other side are the slicked-down men with little bouquets and candy boxes in their hands. To the stringy tune of a bored band, the partners hop and skip through their dance, distorting it like forlorn children at dancing school. The scene is only slightly harmed by an overlong, over-sentimental group singing of Going Home, timed with the heroine's own realization that she is indeed going home...
...Puritans are operating on the pivot system which worked well for them last year (Winthrop lost the title to Dunster in the last game of the season). Brawn, if such be needed on the court, is certainly present in the form of football players Jerry Kanter, Art Hyde and skip Garvey; other more slender men include frank Gump, Jim Powell, Joe Thalfer, and Bob Blinken...
...always with Hartz, both the style and the substance were brilliant. But since I'm a little short on space today, let me skip the substance--there's nothing so dull as a synopsis anyway--and talk about Hartz's manner of speaking...
During this latest period, Brown has been coached first by Skip Stahley, and now by Rip Engle. Both had learned almost everything they know about football from Harlow. They wanted to beat the Old Man badly, but, at the same time, they were afraid...
...tension . . . that might last a generation and in the end mean peace or war . . . However, if this Army is to prevent war, it must be made part of a stable long-range military policy-a policy as prolonged as the period of tension ... If we are to hop, skip and jump every time a paper is rustled east of the Elbe, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at [the Russians'] feet while they call the tune...