Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meanwhile, Boggs and Dixie had driven Flory's pickup truck, with a .22-cal. revolver in the glove compartment, to Oklahoma where they abandoned it, kept the gun and began hitchhiking. They were picked up by two Newport, N.H., men, Robert Willis, 23, and Halvor Johnson, 28 who were driving in Johnson's black Simca to Los Angeles to look for work...
...quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates the film, not by better acting but by seeming hand-in-glove with her role. Plucky, tenacious, she proceeds moment by moment from incredulity to seductiveness to violence to the awful realization that she is merely a bright ephemeral at the mercy of a man who extinguishes living beauty as a pastime...
...worry about." Coming from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 74, that was certainly something to think about. Next day the old soldier's worry list lengthened unexpectedly. While he was in Washington for a physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted the car's spare tire, a $170 portable radio, a $10 box of candy, and the oxygen kit Ike uses when he gets short of breath...
Back in Detroit, Romney opened the Tigers' first home game of the season, not in the usual fashion of lobbing a ball from a box seat, but by doffing his suit coat, donning a fielder's glove and going out onto the mound, where he fired off two fast balls to Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Then he retired to the stands to watch Detroit defeat the Kansas City Athletics...
...Hofheinz's own penthouse, high above the rightfield stands, the carpet, chairs, telephones, even the toilets, are all gold-colored. Last week, tamping his cigar ash in a gold ashtray, shaped like a fielder' glove, Hofheinz peered anxiously out of his picture windows, awaiting his big moment...