Word: windup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Windup. Disappointed Laborites cried "shame" at this "concession" to U.S. views. But Sir Winston, undaunted, carried the fight to them. He chided the neutralists: "It is a delusion to suppose that a declaration of our neutrality would make us immune to danger from Russia...
...regular pupils are girls. Balanchine shakes his head sadly about this, thinks it is because U.S. parents have an idea that dancing "is sissy," despite the fact that the male dancers must be strong enough to lift ballerinas over their heads. "Look at a pitcher," he says. "His windup is just as much of a dance, if you look at it in slow motion, as anything our boys do." An Exercise in Nostalgia. From his school, Choreographer Balanchine can pick the kind of girls he always wanted for his company. His favorite qualities: 1) long legs, 2) "bird bones...
...found French chateaux bordering colonial farmhouses, Moorish palaces nudging Scottish castles. And the old-style breed of Main Line aristocrat can still be found, holding on. In The Saving Grace, Novelist Mc-Cready Huston conducts a guided tour in the manner of a regional John P. Marquand. At the windup, Novelist Huston's poor but honest working girl has sidetracked her Main Liner into matrimony without even trying...
...Windup. In Marlboro, Mass., Marion K. Z. Stone ran this ad in the Daily Enterprise: "Having satisfactorily severed my marriage bond after 19 years, I wish to express . . . gratitude to John E. Rice for counseling, Arthur Bastien and Fred Williams for legal service, the Stone family for a friendly attitude . . . P. S. I have three beagle mongrel pups free for anyone...
...windup of last week's World tournament couldn't have been more spectacular if May himself had written the script. Onetime (1947) U.S. Open Champion Lew Worsham. needing a birdie on the final 410-yd., par4 hole to tie Virginia's Chandler Harper, smashed out a 270-yd. drive. He then calmly took a wedge, plopped the ball onto the green and into the hole for an eagle 2. Jubilantly aghast, Worsham murmured: "The luckiest shot I ever had." Lucky or not, it was worth $25,000 to Lew Worsham, whose 72-hole score...