Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian Sophia Loren, as my companion in the audience suggested, and a lovely doll-like Oriental performing a dance of intense flirtation with the audience, whispering silently to them, looking them in the eye. One was sultry, pouting; the other prim and coquettish; yet both were dancing the same steps. When one glared out of the corner of her eye, the other peeked; yet both moved their eyes at the same time, with the same speed. When Western dancers dance the same steps, they usually manage, if precise, to look like a chorus line; if out of step, like bunglers...
...number of alternatives. The key man is the quarterback, who decides what's going to happen. He does not make his decision in the huddle, but only after the play has started and the defense has committed itself. After getting the snap from center, the quarterback takes a step back and thrusts the ball into the stomach of the fullback. If defenders begin to tackle the fullback, the quarterback withdraws the ball. He can then run or pass with it. On a further option, the quarterback can pitch out to a halfback, who, in turn, can try to blits around...
Secretary Lord Home is convinced that if Britain does reject membership in the NATO force, its exclusion may have political consequences as serious as its original decision to cold-shoulder the Common Market; inevitably, MLF will itself mark an important step toward military and political integration of Europe. Moreover, reasons Home, if West Germany is the principal U.S. partner in the undertaking, Washington may well develop a "special relationship" with Bonn that would leave Britain in even greater isolation...
Hard & High. "On inside runs," he explains, "I go in hard and high with an open mind. On outside runs, I start at full speed, shift down to three-quarter speed to see my block developing, then go back to high and try to be just one-half step behind the guard when he throws his block-so I can be past the tackier and on my way before he recovers." Jimmy rarely tries to fake a cut. "You have to fake from an upright position and you don't get power that way." He much prefers...
Prudence Penny, the New York Mirror's cooking columnist, was teaching readers how to make rum pie with zwieback crust. "Break up zwieback," commanded Prudence conventionally. The next step in the recipe was the kicker: "Keep rum bottle handy; if smashing up zwieback exhausts you, take swig of rum and resume zwieback breaking when strength returns." The extraordinary advice may have startled housewives not yet privy to the Mirror's secret: Prudence Penny is a onetime police reporter named Hyman Goldberg...