Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, the youth slashed the hand of a Lowell House student, Thomas L. Robbins '65, in a scuffle near the Boylston Hall entrance to Harvard Yard. Robbins was treated at the Health Center for a cut palm...
...somebody is always coming up from Richmond) came Rookie Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, 22, to win nine crucial games, including the eleventh in the Yank streak, a two-hit shutout during which he personally outdid Washington batsmen with five singles, two R.B.I.s. Over from Cleveland came Pedro Ramos, the Cuban "palm-bailer," meaning spit-bailer: he won one game and saved five others-including two against Cleveland last week...
...might have made the difference. It should have hurt the team, but Harvard reacted like a horse that had been spurred. Linebacker Jim Driscoll, a star all day long, buried Jerry Whelchel's quarterback sneak and then whacked down Ken Palm within six inches of the goal line. That induced Whelchel to call for a punt, and Terry Swanson booted it out of bounds at the Massachusetts...
First came the single-engined-plane test; aloft for little more than ten minutes, Gregory brought the red and white Cessna-150 to a perfect, gentle stop, shook hands with a newspaperman ("That boy's palm was barely moist," he reported to the crowd), and bounded on to the twin-engined-plane test. The red, white and black Aztec swooped without a tremor to the skies, made a landing the pilot's mother called "soft as a marshmallow," and was welcomed to earth by a drum-and-bugle corps that sounded a fast fanfare. Gregory fidgeted; a bystander...
...coral-and-palm flyspeck 1,300 miles northeast of Australia, Nauru has an area of 8½ square miles and a population of 2,700. Only 100 years ago, it was a virtually unknown battleground of savages who guzzled coconut toddy and sported necklaces of human teeth; in 1852 the Nauruans inhospitably chopped up the entire crew of the visiting American brig, India. Since the turn of the century, however, life for the islanders has been one long enchanted evening...