Word: trickyness
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Spring training that year was a lot tougher than most September practice grinds. Boss Blaik hammered & hammered on fundamentals (he still does, devoting half of every practice session to them). That fall, Army won its first major game (from Columbia) in three years. In 1943, Blaik scuttled his tried & true...
Wheels & Runners. The Northrop Aircraft Inc., through its toymaking subsidiary Northrop-Gaines Inc., will roll out before Christmas 75,000 aluminum wagons, scooters, and a tricky combination-a toddler-tricycle. Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. started to make bicycle parts three months ago, will deliver a few bicycles in October. But...
Unfortunately, the buildups are sometimes too good. The film might be more successful as comedy if it were less painstakingly skillful in creating moments of suspense. As it is, the production is too tricky to be effective either as farce or melodrama; its sudden changes of mood often convey a...
Lacking one important asset of a top-grade outfielder-speed-Ott made up for this deficit by learning to get the jump on a fly ball the split-second it leaves the bat. He is the master of three outfielding arts: 1) on a long fly ball over his head...
In the first day's medal play at Long Island's tricky Fresh Meadow Country Club, Nelson (8t05 in the betting) tried every known form of body English to persuade the ball into the cup. Time & again, he dipped at the knees and rolled with the breeze. He...