Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of baths and sprays cover the floor of the hydrotherapy or bathing room. A specially constructed V-shaped "sitz" bath accomodates a pulled groin when an injured player settles his posterior into it. Two tin bath-tubs resembling those in vogue about 1875 are used to cool or heat a hurt leg, their whirlpools providing a gentle massage which increases the blood circulation. A number of pranksters have had epic water battles with the "fire hose" machine, used by the trainers to message pulled backs with its high-pressure stream...
...pleasantly cool afternoon. In a Manhattan office two FBI agents waited nervously...
...tried to settle down. When he got a letter from a Dr. Gassner (Heil Hitler!) asking him to dinner "to talk over old times" he laughed. Friends told him it was no laughing matter, urged him to take the letter to Gestapo headquarters. He did so, found the Gestapo cool, suspicious. Presently another letter came, threatening him unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent." For the next month he lived...
...therefore better at doubles than at singles. He holds the national doubles championship with Jack Kramer. At Sea Bright, main warm-up for Forest Hills, he was good enough in singles to get as far as the final, and it took Bobby Riggs to beat him. Last week cool Mr. Riggs beat him again, this time in a semifinal. That match had the sideline spectators' heads wagging-the shot that always gets a laugh in the newsreels-with almost parade-ground precision...
They marched against an enemy hardened by years of expert training, better handled, who had much better pay, besides daily mail from home. Later, Habe saw German work-battalions dressed in cool, spotless white. Trucks carried their coats, to say nothing of their equipment...