Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands of political opponents died in his secret police dungeons, mysterious "auto accidents" and "suicides." There were electric chairs for slow electrocution, another many-armed electrical device attached by tiny screws inserted into the skull, a rubber collar that could be tightened to sever a man's head, plus nail extractors, scissors for castration, leather-thonged whips and small rubber hammers. P.A. systems in the torture rooms carried every blood-curdling scream to other prisoners waiting their turn. If Trujillo favored variety, he also favored volume. One October night in 1937, he ordered his army to eliminate all Haitian...
...deliberations of ad hoc committees secret and thus avoid the risk of public outrage that might attend the rejection of a tenure nomination, such as occurred at Yale this year in the Bernstein case. It is impossible to know for sure whether or not the committee act as a rubber stamp--whether the refusal of a nomination is a common occurrence, or whether the existence of the committees discourages thoughtless nominations...
...lacrosse any more. The sport, Canada's official national game, is played also at Oxford, Cambridge and 90 U.S. colleges (mostly in the East) including girls' schools, notably Smith College. The basic principles have changed little: using netted sticks to carry or pass a small hard-rubber ball, two ten-man teams attempt to shoot it into the opposing goal; as in soccer, only the goalkeeper may take the ball in his hands. Nowadays the players wear helmets, masks, pads and gloves, and it is no longer good form (or legal) to bash an opponent on the head...
...engaged in a "hiccup strike" - disregarding calls or answering them irregularly. Even the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Rome closed down, as workers popped their caps for more money. Within the past month, the Bank of Italy, the Italian Atomic Energy Commission, Rome's 36 nightclubs and the rubber industry have been struck, and last week officials of the Treasury and Finance Ministry walked out - thus giving Italian taxpayers a 48-hour breather on their income...
...still doing the same stuff-talking to White Fang and Black Tooth, the meanest and nicest, respectively, dogs in the world, so huge that only their clawed paws are seen on camera. There was Pookie, a rubber-faced lion puppet, and, as always, corn as high as pie-in-the-eye. But once again it was a big click. Kids began strong-arming Mom into having dinner early or late, but not when Soup's on. And the result was that now 22% of his audience are adults...