Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the Allies had made clear that they must have Italy as a base against Germany, the Badoglio Government faced an almost impossible situation. How could it keep Italy from becoming a battlefield? The Rome radio complained: "Fascism has fallen. What have [the Allies] offered Italy? . . . The velvet glove over the iron fist of unconditional surrender. . . . Our peace could be nothing but a continuance of war, with us or without us or over...
...companionship wherever they could. Another body, its red and yellow and blue entrails spilling out like yeasty dough, lay atop the mound outside the hole. Twenty yards from this foxhole there was a little brown-skinned hand, blown there after it had pressed a grenade against the stomach. The glove encasing the hand was only slightly torn...
...Hogan, who used to catch for the Cleveland Indians, had only a fair day against the College boys. He drew a pass, popped to Fltzgibbons, and blasted a hit off Gallagher's glove before a Berg curve caught him in the wrist and forced him to leave the game...
...Bernard Law Montgomery's ground attack. But when Montgomery's Eighth hit, air and ground were immediately coordinated in the third phase. Coningham's bombers pounded rear lines while his fighters strafed the front. All through the long desert chase Coningham and Montgomery worked hand in glove...
...indeed will be any civilian exposed to mustard gas while wearing a pair of rubber panties for a gas mask [TIME, Sept. 7]. The average rubber pant is of similar thickness to a surgeon's rubber glove; it is well known that these gloves become dangerous to wear after 15 minutes' exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister...