Word: torso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mickey Mantle set a muscular chain reaction in motion. Starting in the ankles, rippling through knees, hips, torso, broad shoulders and 17-in. bull neck, he brought his bat around in a perfect arc to meet the ball with a sharp crack. High and deep it sailed. The White Sox centerfielder. playing deep, went a few steps back, then stood, face upturned, as the ball sailed over the fence for a 425-ft. home...
Mary Williamson was only a Yorkshire millhand until Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, the "Father of Physical Culture," put a tape around her torso (bust 38½, hips 39). After that, life speeded up for Mary. First, in a nationwide contest, Macfadden crowned her "Great Britain's Perfect Woman"; then he gave her the star turn in his physicultural demonstrations-that of springing nightly off a high table and landing "with both feet together on his breadbasket."* Between springs he poured into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol...
Stalin's death early in March brought healthy activity from all of the country's publications. Most of them devoted columns to the immensity of Malenkov's torso, which was the only concrete thing not state in Who's Who. But the News editors made some positive evaluations of the dictator. On March 13, "Tomorrow" explained, "Malenkov is untried, probably isolationist at heart, without knowledge of the world outside Russia, inherently cautious. Malenkov, even if he tries to be tough, will frighten less than Stalin". A week later, the editors reconsidered: "Malenkov is a much more dangerous man than Stalin...
From 1906 on, Matisse's sculpture became more & more distorted as he flirted with cubism. The Tate exhibit shows a vigorously lumpy Reclining Nude, a small Torso with Head, unnaturally swaybacked, with cubes for breasts. As in his paintings, Matisse often did several studies leading up to a final sculpture; there are four heads of Jeannette, the first a standard, lifelike portrait, the last a fiercely distorted impression, squeezed and hacked out of shape...
...G.I.s and marines in Korea. Last week both the Army and Marine Corps announced the development of another protective garment-armored shorts. Cut like boxers' shorts and constructed of twelve layers of laminated nylon duck encased in a plastic and nylon fabric, the Army's "lower torso armor" will weigh 4 lbs. (Weight of vest and shorts together: 12 lbs.). Marine Corps armored shorts, which weigh about a pound less than the Army version, have been in experimental use in Korea since early November. The reaction of marines who have worn them in combat: "Favorable...