Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official corruption and connivance in facilitating and promoting organized crime." In every big city top mobsters remain "immune from prosecution and punishment." The committee found cops bribed, political leaders bought or pressured, sheriffs indifferent or even encouraging, well-meaning officials made helpless by others who worked hand-in-glove with crime. "At the local level, this committee received evidence of corruption of law-enforcement officers and connivance with criminal gangs in practically every city in which it held hearings...
...West Palm Beach driving range photographers paused to take some action pictures of lean, wiry old Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack. At 88, still limber as a pitcher's glove and lean-flanked as a rookie outfielder, "Mr. Mack" had decided to improve his golf game. With a little coaching, he was already smashing out 175-yard drives, had plenty of time, having closed out a half century as manager of his Philadelphia Athletics (Connie Mack, president) to learn the finer points of the short pitch and the downhill putt...
...entrenchments surrounding the town. Next day, the attack abated; cargo planes dropped food and ammunition into the 23rd's position, while U.N. fighters clawed Red positions with rockets and machine guns. At dusk the Chinese came in again. The 23rd's ammunition ran low. G.I.s combed the glove compartments of jeeps for spare cartridges. When the Chinese assaulted a French-held hill, the Frenchmen threw them back with a bayonet charge...
...most of his fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous...
Like Nick Barone himself, fight fans were reconsidering Ezzard's virtues last week. They included a poised defense that turned aside with glove or shoulder most of Barone's punches, a flickering left jab which, though it packed no knockout drops, did a thorough job of dulling his opponent's reflexes, and a stout right smash that put Barone away in round eleven. At 29, Ezzard Charles had a polished boxing style that was not Joe Louis', but was still mighty effective in its own way. It might be a long time before the fans...