Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rebot, played by five-man teams. Four of the players carry yoko-garbi chisteras, the fifth serves with his bare hand, then straps on a stiff leather glove...
...went Juan Perón's "pacificator" program, the relaxation and concessions spill ing out almost daily, but always in a way that suggested that there was still steel inside the velvet glove. Whatever the true explanation, it appeared that the June 16 revolt, though a military fiasco, may have been something of a revolution after...
...pitch in the dirt that he cannot dig out. "I line up my body for the way it's coming in," he says, "and jump if it's too much outside. I do it all pre-advance. It might be easier just to stick out the glove like most of them, but you might get the wrong tendency. If you keep moving every day, you'll get in the right habit...
...Moscow he was told to report to the Soviet consulate in Bucharest; he reported twice, waited for weeks but got no orders. In Belgrade he met one contact (who wore one glove and carried one as proof of identity), then lost track. "It just went up in the air," he testified. In Ankara he reported to "Madame," a Soviet embassy official whom he met at a ball. "I got to know her very well," he testified, but he could not remember her name. When he finally broke off with Madame and the party in March 1942, Burdett related, "she acted...
When Isaac Emanuelovich Babel was ten years old, he saw his father kneel in the mud before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life...