Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buckled before the ignition system will work, and with green taillights that turn red when the brakes are applied and thus give a sharper light contrast on braking than at present. The Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, which does work for all of the auto companies, has suggested removing the glove compartment to do away with a potentially dangerous obstacle to the front-seat passenger in case of a crash, and protecting the driver with a steering column that would snap in the middle upon impact. Others have proposed spring-mounted bumpers and thicker doors, sealed side windows to keep arms...
Sure enough, the Yanks and Astros played at night, and nobody so much as muffed a fly. The trouble was trying to hit one. "The ball just doesn't carry here," complained Yankee John Blanchard, swinging mightily and watching the ball settle into the catcher's glove. "It must be mathematical." Pitchers were ecstatic. "My knuckler's never broken better," chortled Houston's Ken Johnson. "This is a pitcher's park...
Ridiculous or not, knees and the lower thigh are now in the public eye. For still supple gamines who can toss off a handstand or a cartwheel, the new look will fit like an old glove. But for those who cannot resist layer cake and ice cream, Courrèges may take more courage than they...
...talk and precipitate action. "What I do," he says, "I do after lengthy consultation. A chief of state cannot ignore other voices." Last week, in his first annual message to Congress, Leoni stood for almost three hours in Caracas' capitol building and demonstrated the effects of his velvet glove...
...Those Pistols Down. Leoni's velvet glove even extends to the war on Castroite terrorists. Last December he pushed through a new law that gives convicted terrorists the option of going to jail, being confined to their home areas, or leaving Venezuela altogether. Thus encouraged to give up, a number of tired, hungry revolutionaries have turned themselves...