Word: thumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sphinx & Thumper. Eisenhower has his own operational code for bridge: "Play every hand," he says, "as part of a lifetime bridge career. The result is more slams, less sets, and a fine average record." He will take reasonable chances based on a knowledge of mathematical odds; when alternative lines of play are before him, he chooses the one with the more favorable odds (for an example, see box on a recent Eisenhower slam bid). His defensive play can be rough and bold. Recently he went all the way to six hearts to prevent his opponents from taking...
...bounce, his right hand dallying attractively behind the foot-tapping beat of his left. Other times he just gets slow and dreamy, playing around the melody a lot of quiet chords that have just enough bite to keep the customers awake; but this harmonic fabric makes many another jazz thumper sound either flat or fussy. Says he: "I just play what I feel. Suddenly I hit a groove that moves me, and then I take off. I don't worry about how it'll come...
Yesterday's workout, according to a release prepared before practice by H.A.A. tub-thumper W. Henry Johnston, "emphasized a review and brush up on each position with attention given to fundamentals, mainly blocking and tackling...
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When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...