Word: rubberizing
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...contrast, says the pamphlet, Casanova "knew how to make love without making his women pregnant." His secret: a primitive form of "French letter," a century-old British slang term for condom. "Instead of being made out of synthetic rubber, as they are nowadays, it was made out of sheep's gut," explains the council. "To keep it in place, he tied it on with a tasteful pink ribbon...
...resigned his post for reasons of health (in fact, he has long had a heart condition), four of his close associates were dropped from Poland's twelve-man Politburo. President Marian Spychalski, 64, felt so completely disgraced that he never even appeared before the Sejm (Poland's rubber-stamp parliament) to resign from office in person...
...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital 17 years ago. "My knot-tying proficiency had melted away. My fingers, greasy with fat, simply would not perform. My ties slipped off the vessels, the sutures snapped in my fingers; at one point I even managed to tie the end of my rubber glove into the wound...
...response to Cronin's opinion stating that "the Board acts merely in an advisory capacity. The City Manager is not a rubber stamp. He has the power to eliminate the Board at any time," the CDA personnel have quickly mobilized...
...growing up. But most of all it is the result of our crumbling illusions about our world, of our realization of the forces of politics and power structures that not only controlled the world but even permeated our sequestered university communities. Placed beside these new ideas, even Rubber Soul began to pale in significance. The concept of the Sub-Culture became increasingly a political concept. (The Sub-Culture itself may never have really existed.) By the time the Let It Be album was released, it was not an event of very great importance to anyone except those who would make...