Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved hand, it numbed his arm all the way to the elbow. The research institute concluded that Hull (at 5 ft. 10½ in.. 194 Ibs.) is a "perfect muscular mesomorph"-which is more or less what his opponents have been saying all along. "Somebody ought to put hobbles on him," growls Detroit's Gordie Howe...
...Louis, dressing up is still considered a bit of a lark and centers on occasions like the Veiled Prophet Ball, where above-elbow white gloves are de rigueur for wives and the soberest businessmen get wildly trigged out as bearded warriors...
Fadden also proposed a rule change: outlaw the high-arm block. A blocker can ram his forearm or elbow into an opponent's face despite the protection of the mask. Cage masks which leave no opening wide enough for an elbow are fine for linemen, but backs, who need more visibility, are forced to use the conventional double or single bar variety. If high-arm blocking were illegal, Fadden believes that there would be no need for the face mask...
...Seats in Sever 11 are so narrow that students in English 115 have to lean Chaucer's Works on one neighbor's elbow and notebooks on the opposite neighbor's Chaucer book...
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...