Word: spryness
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...combination as foreign as a keg-standing priest or a thought-provoking Core section. Perhaps, however, the ample frame partly explains her choice of occupancy in front of the Porcellian Club. Shacking up before any other similar locale--the Fox, the Owl, the Fly--would imply an agility and spryness far too incongruous for our portly panhandler...
...dexterity. If you laughed at Keith's occasional attempts at lead vocals on Stones albums, you'll be astonished at how adept his singing has become. His voice still has the narrow timbre of old, and his rasp is raspier than ever, but his vocal gymnastics display an unexpected spryness. On one song, the Stax-like "Make No Mistake," he even croons and whispers like Al Green (though without Green's range), curling his voice around each syllable with palpable relish. Keith also proves himself a reasonable blues shouter, in the mold of--who else?--Mick Jagger...
...number of dogs he keeps ... as though he were lord of the place, coursing his greyhounds through the corn, spoiling and trampling it." Apparently La Tour remained a crusty squire to the end: in 1650, two years before his death at 59, he thrashed a peasant with such spryness that a doctor had to be called...
...change the Communist fist into the open hand of simulated friendship, as rapidly as Moscow does it, requires not only political spryness but a kind of unabashed acceptance of duplicity and falsehood, so deeply ingrained that it becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris...
...founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...