Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strip of ice, usually on an indoor rink where the ice is more even and not subject to sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull's-eye. If the stone falls short...
...Skip the Banquets. Last week, 14 junketing U.S. legislators dropped into peaceful Strasbourg to find out what it was all about and to participate in four days' joint debate with 20 members of the Assembly. Their ambitious agenda: "Union of Europe, its problems, progress, prospects and place in the Western world." Rhode Island's crusty old Senator Theodore F. Green took turns with Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as chairman...
...Heil Hitler, padre! . . . Let's skip all the phony piety, shall we? When a man deserts he's asking for all he gets . . . The rest is up to the firing squad. Victory will go to the strong, and the Fiihrer has no time for yellowbellies...
...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...
...workout in the 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...