Word: hand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brokerage house back offices, where the huge volumes of shares traded had to be processed by hand, the working hours extended from early in the morning until well into the night. Some Wall Street firms sent their employees over to the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights for a few hours' sleep, then brought them back early the next morning. Barbers were brought in to shave them at their desks. "We were going all the time," says Fowler. "The older fellows used to work until 8 or 9 o'clock at night and then go to some speakeasy...
Serene and shy, Jan is a calming influence on Mickey's mercurial moods. Occasionally he missed that steady hand when he was on the road with Sugar Babies. "Mickey hates to rehearse," says Co-Star Ann Miller. "He learns instantly what's tough for a lot of other people, and he'd come in like a little bull, snorting, stomping and yelling, 'I'm not going to rehearse it.' He usually would when someone would sit down with him and explain why it was necessary. When he's in a good mood...
...amazingly consistent Kingsberg punted the ball to Scoon, who was waiting next to the deepest Princeton fullback. As Scoon scooted towards right hand corner of the field to get a better angled shot, three Tiger defensemen charged her. Without cutting down on her exceptional speed, Scoon pulled off both a step-over fake and a body fake, which confused the defense and prevented it from stopping her scoring shot...
...ineffectiveness of its usually potent penalty corner play-involving a hand-stop followed by a shot--led the Crimson to change tactics after its fifth corner and attempt to work a forward free with short passes. But this was little improvement...
...first two didn't work because of the bumpy field," said Crimson forward Sarah Chubb, who attempted the hand-stops. "After that, it was nerves because I had missed the first two. We were all pretty tense in the second half." she added...