Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president, they agreed to work with a twelve-member student-faculty search committee. The committee screened 300 candidates and finally came up with five finalists; it specifically rejected Professor Rogers on four separate votes. Nevertheless, soon after the start of classes this fall, the regents in a breakfast meeting rubber-stamped the candidate of their own selection committee-and named Rogers...
...that matter, the Boy's error gave the A's a superfluous run. The three A's pitchers allowed the Brewers only four hits after the first inning. Rollie Fingers, of the 1890's mustache and 1970's rubber arm, put down a mild Milwaukee rally, a one-out single in the ninth, to end the game...
...nuisance of itself in the East this year. As for Cornell, they have the man who, for my money, is and has been the best runner in the Ivy League for the past two years. His name is Don Fanelli, and his knees are now held together by two rubber bands and a Band-Aid after countless operations. He was injured in the Harvard game last season, and his return to 100 per cent is questionable. But if he's healthy, Cornell is a factor...
...angle characterization is his introduction of a character named Henke (Val Avery), who is being sought by various intelligence agencies so that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window of a nearby apartment, whose tenant rushes out and starts after the startled kids. Henke laughs all the way home...
...rather sensitive government scandal. The exact nature of the disgrace is unspecified, but there is no mistaking Ventura's dedication. He rents a hotel room in the French town of Montpellier and starts unpacking his sniper gear from a specially rigged suit case lined with foam rubber...