Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maestros of them all is an innocent-looking man of 50 who calls himself, among many aliases, Michael Leo Thompson. He has moved slightly less rubber than Malaysia. Authorities suspect that for most of the past 20 years in at least 26 states, he has cashed bad checks almost once a day, fleecing the credulous of close to $1 million. Now Thompson's spectacular career has come to an end. When he tried to cash a phony $93.40 payroll check at a small hotel in Rantoul, Ill., the manager's wife grew suspicious and stalled him while...
...National Security Council vetoed the separation-plant project in early 1968. Shortly afterward, Eshkol discovered that Dayan ?in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War ?had secretly ordered the start of construction on an S.P. Eshkol and his advisers felt that they could only rubber-stamp a project already under...
Even though getting beaned by a steel and rubber ball is a little too much participation for most people, you should go to a game and see how the Radcliffe program has changed since its inception three years ago. With seven returning lettermen, several freshmen prospects, and the new experience of a spring tour in Virginia, the Crimson is sure to improve on last year's 4-5 record...
Radcliffe will open its season at Pine Manor on April 7 and play its first home contest on April 13 against Tufts. If you go to see the games, don't worry too much about getting hit; the ball has more rubber than steel...
...thoughts come to him in bursts of various length, each one striving for profundity and literary value. This sometimes produces streams of semi-meaningless maxims (of Rubin, "He is Jimmy Connors deciding to be Chrissie Evert, as solemn as an oil rig;" of Canada, "a New Zealand on rubber wheels." Leonard must have some idea what these things mean). It also sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with a grudge against women has a chance to make money.") Maybe Leonard has watched...