Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elitism, you see, has hardly gone out of tennis. Yes, TV is giving it a vast public audience. Yes, tennis has become booming big business. Yes, professionalism has taken much of the "gentlemanliness" out of the sport. And yes, it is bigger--it has from Southhampton to Palm Beach to Grosse Pointe become the sport of the suburbs...
...elder in the Mormon Church, he did not smoke, drink, overeat or stay up late (and still doesn't today). His lone passion besides golf was fishing and his idea of a hot time was shooting pool with Spiro Agnew at Frank Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. "There's really nothing wrong with messing around," Johnny said, "if that's what you like. But if you don't do it, you certainly have the advantage." He insisted that his attitude was as positive as ever and that he never felt pushed. "Dad really drove...
...that one out of a thousand sailors who cannot find what he wants in the catalogues of the big builders." He is a man who shuns complex modern gear that he cannot service himself. He can work with rope or wire or canvas, and the sailmaker's "palm" sits comfortably in his hand. His compass and sextant are instruments to be treated with care and reverence. He can read the tides and the weather, and he knows the movements of the navigator's stars. His library is charts and pilot manuals. His bible is the American Practical Navigator...
Once again the Administration is attempting to palm off a plan that falls far short of any real demonstration of commitment to the policies it has no trouble verbalizing. The University's obligation is not merely to meet the substandard requirements of the Federal government, but to begin immediate active recruitment of women and minority groups employees so that the near future will see a Harvard whose administrators, faculty members, and workers include equal numbers of men and women in all the ranks, receiving equal compensation for their duties...
Turcotte never even bothered to cock his whip-which means transferring it from between the last two fingers and the palm to the working part of the hand. Who needed a whip...