Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elbow Ethics. Implicit in many such methods are tricks of the trade not exactly prescribed by the rules-and indeed N.B.A. officials are lenient of necessity. Admits one referee: "We don't call a foul unless the contact directly involves the play-except once in a while. If we called them all, we'd be blowing those damned whistles all night...
...gets upset when he catches an accidental elbow in a scramble for a loose ball. Detroit's Walt Dukes (7 ft., 220 lbs.) has the sharpest elbows in the league, beats a painful tattoo on the heads of friend and foe alike. Used intentionally, however, the elbow can be a far more effective weapon than a punch. Says one coach on the ethics of elbowing: "It's perfectly all right for me to belt someone if he flagrantly holds me repeatedly when we're not fighting over the ball...
...Cole's bearishness about earth is what he calls the "biodetonation": the explosive population increase which, he believes, will turn the earth's entire surface into a single city within a few generations and require the cultivation of high-yielding algae on every rooftop to feed the elbow-to-elbow masses. But even more dangerous than biodeto-nation is "sophidetonation": the ever-quickening accumulation of scientific knowledge. One likely effect of sophidetonation, says Cole, is a war fought with megaton or perhaps gigaton* nuclear weapons, and although this might serve as a drastic check on biodetonation, it would...
...Shelley Berman's closet, a dozen $325 suits hang in a row, the right sleeve of each bent at the elbow, recalling a cocked arm holding a telephone. Short of a medieval armorer, no tailor could keep a jacket from taking on the prime characteristic of its owner, the comedian who has risen to fame by talking to imaginary people on imaginary telephones...
...best and true and only meal, thought Mr. Perley as he descended at noon and swung east on the beat-up sidewalk of Forty-fifth Street. Just ahead of him was the girl from the reception desk. I am a little fleshed up around the crook of the elbow, thought Perley, but I commute good...