Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only empty shelves is to miss the remarkable nature of the Soviet reforms. Gorbachev believes that the three prongs of his program are inextricably linked. Demokratizatsiya goes hand in glove with perestroika, he argues, because individual initiative is impossible in a society where decision-making is alienated from the people. And for either prong to work, there must be open discussion of ideas and criticism of the system's flaws. "It is only by combining economic reform with political changes, demokratizatsiya and glasnost that we can fulfill the tasks we have set for ourselves," Gorbachev told a party plenum...
Abbott's way of juggling his glove amounts to legerdemain. He throws the ball and puts it on, catches the ball and takes it off. "The transfers aren't that difficult," he insists. "There's no dramatic story that goes with it. Just a matter of learning to do things a little differently. I never told myself, 'I want to be the next Pete Gray ((a one-armed outfielder who played the 1945 season with the St. Louis Browns)).' I said, 'I want to be the next Nolan Ryan...
Congressional Democrats remain slightly puzzled about how to react to Bush's strategy of proffering a velvet glove clutching a closed wallet. After years of bitter deadlock with Reagan, they tended to mute their criticism of a President so palpably eager to negotiate. Some, like Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, were amused by the incongruities of the President's new compassionate language. "Bush sounded a lot like Michael Dukakis," she joked. "I hate to use that L word, but it sounded liberal, liberal, liberal...
...Crimson picked up right where it left off two minutes later. Senior Catherine Wolfram made a sensational tip-in, just lifting a pass from junior defender Nina Simonds above Bingham's outstretched glove...
...large man but a nimble first baseman in his 13 years in the major leagues, White seven times won the Gold Glove, which signifies pre-eminence at a position. In his happiest period, from 1959 through 1965 with the St. Louis Cardinals, he hit as much as .324 and regularly managed 20 home runs and 100 runs batted...