Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...
...Hollywood itself, Comedian Fatty Arbuckle was being tried for the death of an actress following a pajamaed "orgy." There, too, a small group of men who knew less about show business than fur dealing (Marcus Loew), jewelry merchandizing (Lewis J. Selznick), glove selling (Samuel Goldwyn), cloth sponging (William Fox), railroad engineering (Sam Warner), were struggling among hundreds of others "from Saturday night to Saturday night" in an atmosphere of "ruthless conflict, chicane, daring, and genius...
Individualism v. Economic Law. The title of The Yogi and the Commissar, a collection of 16 essays, mostly on writing and politics, fits the book like a glove. For Koestler believes that every thinking man today is threatened or tempted by these two polar figures. On the extreme Left stands the Commissar-the superbly disciplined Communist who believes that the end justifies the means, and who has exchanged ethics, personal liberty and all irrational sentiments for a ruthless "pseudo-Communism" based on economic laws. On the extreme Right, in an "exotic hermitage," stands (or sits) the Yogi. He believes that...
...named Don took a dollar bill out of Emberg's pocket. Then Red Thomas asked him, 'Where's my dollar?' Emberg said, 'The other boys got it.' Red went in and got a shower handle and put it in his hand, under his glove, and began socking the boy. Red said grab his arms. A couple of boys grabbed his arms and Earl stepped on his leg. Then Red hit him in the nose and mouth until he was bleeding. Then Red told him to take a shower, and Red ate dinner...
Made of fiber, willow wood, leather, aluminum, steel or plastic, modern artificial limbs are light and adaptable: knee joints, for example, are adjustable for walking, sitting, even dancing. Artificial arms have a great variety of hand attachments. For public wear, there is usually a wooden hand, covered by a glove; for utility, a double hook arrangement to grasp small objects, and special fittings for eating, hammering, driving screws, etc. Before discharge, every man must be able to feed and dress himself...