Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Wyndham Lewis, a novelist and critic whose work, & said T.S. Eliot, combined "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave man." Lewis also dabbled in art. To Poet Edith Sitwell, his pictures seemed "to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove...
...took his pitches in the bullpen, he was surrounded by a huge crowd of curious fans. The scene was marked by a horde of brats who kept screaming to a legend and his catcher that they should throw a glove, a ball, a batting glove or some souvenir over the fence...
...BRIGHT DAY in Kent, England retired glove salesman W. Morgan Petty heard about an interview with a prominent American General. Not to worry, said the general: A nuclear war can be confined to a very small area. Petty was greatly encouraged by those findings- certianly the Super Powers had nothing against him or any of his neighbors and would therefore pick a small area well away from his house. So Petty and his tenacious sidekick Roger declared the house and garden a nuclear free zone...
Atlanta Reporter Leslie Cauley, who talked to state police officials and judges in Georgia and South Carolina, learned last December how even a minor incident could affect her. Returning to her car one night, she found the window vent broken and the glove compartment rifled. Angry, she headed home. "I was on the interstate when it hit me. I started to shake as I considered what might have happened if I had come upon my thief. In my anger, what would I have done? And what, in his desperation, would he have done...
...this case, sit down? The reclusive singer was at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London last week to witness the debut of his life-size look-alike. The wax Jackson, for which the singer posed last November, has an electric bulb twinkling in its right eye, the jeweled glove on the outstretched right hand is studded with tiny strobes, and the silver waistcoat also lights up. After a close inspection, the sleek and shiny original pronounced his nondancing double to be "excellent, really good." Then Jackson went outside and, to the roaring approval of several thousand waiting, sometimes fainting...