Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between shows and trips to the studio, Toni likes to skip rope, ride bicycles, and listen to the Lone Ranger. She is not much impressed by her singing and is cool when her father insists on playing her records for visitors ("I just like to sing. It sounds pretty to me, that's all"). At school, where she always gets As or Bs, no one else is much impressed either. Since she tends to syncopate even her school songs, her teachers don't ask her to sing solo. But Toni doesn't care. "School songs," says...
...Sunday Skip Stahley, coach at George Washington and a former Harlow assistant, dropped into Cambridge to visit friends, but apparently left town the next day. Biff Glassford, New Hampshire mentor, was the next caller. He too left for the hills after a short conference with Bingham...
...went on to say what a terrific guy her husband was and how the 16- and 17-year-old infants on his team had mauled everybody they played last fall. At any rate, whoever gets the job--Valpey, Glassford, Jordan, or even Skip Stahley--he will have to get it pretty soon. Time is running...
...gradual passing of such clowns and demagogues as Theodore Bilbo, John Rankin, Eugene Talmadge, there was reason to believe that political responsibility was growing in the South. But the very sound of Earl Long's gravel voice was enough to cause the city's heart to skip a beat. So Sam Jones's fight was also Chep Morrison's fight...
...Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...