Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backboards to Birrell's left. When Birrell moved out to clear the shot, the puck took a whimsical bounce off the boards and carromed off Birrell's pads toward the crease. The Knight goalie finished off the farce perfectly by swiping at the malicious disc with his glove and knocking it cleanly into the cage...
...felt that he was spoken to only when someone was barking a command. Chicago Dermatologist Theodore Lawless fought off subtle rebuffs while an instructor at Northwestern University. When his hand was to be photographed giving an injection to demonstrate a new technique, he was asked to wear a surgical glove so his dark hand would not "be seen. "I said, 'Hell no,' " he recalls, "and I never...
Died. Charles Ruffin Hook, 83, longtime (1930-59) president and chairman of Armco Steel Corp., the nation's fourth-largest steel company (1962 sales: $918 million), who married the boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...
Telegraphed Admiration. Traditionalists deplore the trend and complain that it has vulgarized a stylish, patrician ritual. In the old days, no well-bred European kissed a woman's hand before noon, or outdoors (except at garden parties or the race track), or if she wore gloves-and not at all, in most countries, if she was unmarried. Nowadays, even in strait-laced Spain, girls who are barely old enough to hold up a strapless bra have their hands out. When it is enclosed in a glove, uninhibited males blithely peel it off or smooch the wrist instead...
...concept of parity is quite straight forward. A right handed glove viewed in a mirror appears as a left handed glove and vice versa. The act of looking into the mirror is the essence of the idea of parity. Parity conservation implies that physical laws do not depend upon handedness; a left and right glove dropped from the top of Holyoke Center will reach the ground together. Even on the atomic level physical laws do not depend upon handedness. (In fact they must be explicitly independent of any reference to "left" or "right...