Word: swaggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrawny cowpoke draped over the bars of the end stall looked like anything but a big money man. His ancient riding boots were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
...staggering 19 sets, Director Daniel Petrie moved his cameras and 100 players with the fluidity of a movie. "We also put inordinate effort into the script," said Susskind, "on the outmoded theory that in the beginning was the word." Adapter Leslie Slote's words had dash and swagger, especially as wielded by Canadian Actor Christopher Plummer, the prince's droll derring...
...trunks of the high school's lordly oaks. Jeeps moved around to the rear of the school, parked in a line along practice-football charging machines. Pup tents blossomed in back of the school's tennis courts. Colonel William A. Kuhn, smart and salty, swung a swagger stick as he examined a map of the school grounds...
...long sideburns carefully cropped and brushed, arrived in Maebashi for the trial still under the 24-hour guard set over him since he went AWOL on a drinking spree a few weeks ago. In the dock he sat uncomfortably, gazing dazedly at the three-judge tribunal, his onetime swagger gone. When the charge was read out, Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi summoned Girard to the witness stand and beamed at him like a benign headmaster. "You don't have to answer any questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want to say?" Girard said...
Appearance: Stocky (5 ft. 6 in., about 200 Ibs.), trim, with an old cavalryman's stiff yet colorful swagger, a hard face that creases into an Ike-size smile. "A man of the earth," says the U.S.'s Paratrooper General James Gavin. "Short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...