Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although no other eastern team is using gloves, McCurdy said that the idea has bees tried before. "Several coaches attempted to use rubber surgeon's gloves but found that they were too tight and slippery. So we tried cotton gloves and they seem to have worked out quite well...
...first week of Indonesia's corruption-ridden and strife-torn eighth year of independence, there was much food for thought. The huge island of Sumatra (whose oil and rubber provide two-thirds of Indonesia's export revenue) was in open revolt against the government. Sumatrans complain that the national government, sitting in the Java capital of Djakarta, is too Java-centered.* Last week in North Sumatra, three of four government regiments were reportedly rallying to the support of Rebel Leader Colonel Maludin Simbolon, once the rising star of the Indonesian army, who is in hiding in the hills...
...colonial exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials, takes the finished products they manufacture. Czechoslovakia, for example, did 5.5 billion crowns ($770,000,000) worth of trade with Russia in 1955, giving engineering products in return for metals, petroleum, rubber, timber...
...Just as they did 22 years ago when freezing weather slicked the field for the championship playoff with the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants traded their cleated football shoes for rubber-soled sneakers. And just as they did in 1934, the Giants ran off with the National Football League title. The bruising New York defense kept the Bears at bay; on offense just about every Giant was a star. Scoring on runs, passes, field goals and a blocked kick, the Giants...
...embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay; Miró would add his "signs": a star, a circle, a crescent...