Word: greaseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winner of the California cookoff, concocted his "horse-and-buggy" chili from lean beef, peppers and his own chili powder. The Texas champion, Susie Watson of Houston, used a similar recipe, plus an arcane spice derived from pine cones. Even in Texas, none of the chili heads used the "greaseless" Pedernales River recipe favored by Lyndon Johnson. "L.B.J.'s stuff," growled an oldtimer, "was just low-torque beef gruel...
Perry was prepared. He had perfected a dancing but parched-dry forkball. Or so he said. After being warned about suspicious pitches early in the season, he arranged a special demonstration for senior umpires to prove that his "great stuff' was greaseless. What the umps saw, or thought they saw, was a delivery with the first and second ringers gripping the sides rather than the top of the ball. "They agreed it was not a spitter," Perry reported. "One umpire even complimented me." Since then, Forkballer Perry has been the toughest pitcher in baseball, winning thirteen consecutive games while...
Before pulling on the two-piece, leotard-like, nylon spandex suit, customers are advised to cover their bodies with a light film of greaseless Isotoner Motion Cream. Any movement, explains Aris Gloves, the manufacturer, then causes the suit and cream to work "synergistically." The suit will knead the cream into the body and the fiber will produce an "isometric push-pull action" that makes the whole operation a kind of wear-a-massage...