Word: gloved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everything, that is, but emotional maturity. Mother was part of his problem. The wife of a housemaster at Rugby, she was a proper, pre-Freudian Victorian to the last glove button. Young Rupert, who arrived after his mother had lost a daughter in infancy, was often told that she had terribly hoped he would be a girl...
...suggestion that they ought to disclose their financial condition came from the Rules Committee, which had handled the kid-glove investigation of onetime Senate Majority Secretary Bobby Baker. The recommendation proposed that Senators and Senate employees earning more than $10,000 a year disclose periodically the sources-not the amount-of outside income that exceeded 50% of their Senate pay. But when the measure reached the floor for debate, the Senate responded with a howl. Leading the chorus was Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen...
What first fired his imagination was the famed Armory Show of 1913. Then and there, he decided to be a modern painter. But to train his hand to follow his esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted...
...Rodriguez for punching below the belt, and Rodriguez' manager, Angelo Dundee, chased Krause clear across the ring. "What are you doing, Harry?" he yelled. "Remember the other guy is fouling, too!" How could he forget? In the clinches, Griffith raked Rodriguez' face with the laces of his glove. Luis retaliated by throwing uppercuts with the top of his head. Three times the two fighters kept slugging after the bell...
Some pioneering surgeons are already putting patients into similar plastic bags and performing major operations through glove ports. It should not be long before many patients can have a truly sterile operation, fulfilling Joseph Lister's dream of aseptic surgery, and then be moved into the sterile isolator for recovery-something that not even Lister dared to hope...