Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They plunked him in a leather-covered swivel chair, snapped pictures and hammered him with questions while they called the police. Even after the cops arrived, Rodriguez stuck to his story that he had not killed the girl. When the cops stepped out of the room to decide what to do, Reporter Keyes supplied the answer. "Why don't you tell the truth, Roman?" he said to Rodriguez. "No jury will ever believe what you've told us . . ." "All right," Rodriguez answered, "I'll tell you the truth. I killed her." When the cops came back...
...starter tapped her on the back, she was off, pushing furiously with her ski poles to gain the speed she would have to check, moments later, with a swivel-hip turn. She swept down the dizzying de scent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man. Crouching, straightening, swinging her slim hips in an almost antic mimicry of a rumba step, she darted and danced through the multicolored flags that outlined the course...
...past years, CRIMSON business representatives have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of freshman radiators without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, there is a chance for freshmen, sophomore, and junior latent extroverts to develop under personal tutelage of the fastest talking gray flannels in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening at 7-30 tonight offers everyone a gift for gab which can come in handy along other than journalistic lines...
...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...