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...Princeton attack the fearsome weapon it is. The defending team is never sure what Kazmaier is going to do: run, pass or quick kick. He is effective at all three. His running has no pounding power, no blinding speed. But a trail of sprawling, frustrated tacklers attests to a swivel-hipped shiftiness, a ball-bearing glide that enable him to change pace or direction without losing stride. Judd Timm, the Princeton backfield coach, an ex-trackman at Illinois, describes Kazmaier's running style: "He runs 'light,' with a nice forward lean; if he wants to slow down...
...items. Appropriately enough, the biggest section (71 pages) is for toys. Among the new ones: a "Tintair Glamor Girl Doll," whose blonde hair can be dyed two different colors and washed out again ($11.45); a 145-piece army training center, complete with 100 plastic soldiers and a swivel chair in the headquarters building for the top brass...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBCTV) is the first live, commercial TV show to be broadcast to the nation from the West Coast. What the nation got: an hour-long trouper's travelogue dominated by swivel-eyed Eddie Cantor, who sang such showstoppers as Makin' Whoopee and Bye, Bye, Blackbird, bounced through an old-time burlesque routine, delivered a flood of show business anecdotes in an emotion-choked voice. As usual, Cantor narrowly escaped the final plunge into bathos, came closest to it while singing Ida to his wife as the TV camera sought her downcast face...
Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...