Word: cuffe
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...York Giants in the N.F.L. playoff. And-crunch-defense won again. Onto Chicago's Wrigley Field pranced the high-scoring (32 points per game) Giants, with wonderful Y. A. Tittle and his acrobatic receivers-Del Shofner, Frank Gifford, Aaron Thomas. There stood the glowering Bears, aching to cuff them around. At 7:22 of the first quarter, Tittle lofted his 37th touchdown pass of the year-a soft, 14-yd. beauty to Gifford. It was the only mistake the Bears made all day. A few minutes later, Tittle tried one of his patented screen passes-a play designed...
...head first, so that he could pull several children through portholes from smoke-filled cabins. Just before going over the side, Susan Redfern opened her pocketbook and gave her husband a gift package. "Here you are, luv," she said. "Merry Christmas." The package contained a handsome pair of gold cuff links...
...plate held in place by two screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
...World War II, no longer goes as far as it once did. "At some point, now impossible to define," he reflects, "his face had ceased to inspire confidence of the right sort, even in bars." With no prospects George hangs on, in present-day London, a kind of frayed cuff whose very existence is a reproach to the bustling stuffed-shirt society he inhabits...
...Hassan to the gallows," yelled the crowd of 100,000. Thousands of jobless, hungry Algerians happily joined the army, partly to get a free meal ticket. Ben Bella showed up in the National Assembly in a brand-new battle jacket, urged the Deputies to "give up your neckties and cuff links" and sign up too. Most did, and the Assembly was dissolved until further notice...