Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Velvet Glove. In any Cabinet under any President, the Secretary of the Treasury wields great power and carries grave responsibilities. He oversees the vast, intricate flow and ebb of the billions of dollars that the U.S. Government takes in and pays out. He is charged with managing the $290 billion national debt, a task in which small errors can be costly. But Robert Anderson's power and influence extend far beyond the statutory scope of his office, broad as that is. By force of mind and personality, Anderson molds politics that reach into every niche of the U.S. Government...
...months since he took over from George Magoffin Humphrey as Treasury Secretary, Anderson has proved himself a man of iron determination, but he softens its rub with the gentlest velvet glove in Washington. He may well be the most unanimously admired man in the capital. A Democratic Representative who has clashed with him on economic policies freely concedes that he is a "very great American." A fellow Cabinet officer whose department has felt the paining pinch of Anderson's insistence on balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years...
...control trouble, but Catcher Roseboro saved him by gunning out three of the touted Chicago speed boys (Rivera, Aparicio, Fox) on attempted steals of second. With the bases loaded in the seventh, gimpy Carl Furillo, 37, came off the Dodger bench to hit a bouncing ball past the frantic glove of Shortstop Aparicio, and drive in two runs. The Sox threatened in the eighth, but confident Reliefer Larry Sherry, 24, who had preserved the second game for the Dodgers, stalked in to throw his curves and sliders, get out of a bases-loaded jam with only...
...strayed from the diamond was to the corner pool parlor, where he learned to shoot a sharp game. Rocky was too busy getting ready for the big leagues, squeezing rubber balls to build up his hand and arm muscles (he still does), hoarding his dimes to buy a good glove. His throwing arm was soon strong enough to win bets from the unwary, and there are those in The Bronx who still claim that the 14-year-old lad once cleared the Claremont Parkway elevated station from a block away...
...nose seemed to explode. For 30 seconds I thought the decompression had me," recounts Rankin. "It was a shocking cold all over. My ankles and wrists began to burn as though somebody had put Dry Ice on my skin. My left hand went numb. I had lost that glove when I went...