Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game is very similar to squash. It should be noted that the ball, a compressed rubber sphere, can travel 90 miles per hour leaving hands bruised and calloused (in the beginning they "swell up like a tomato") and players knocked unconscious if they are caught looking the wrong...
Though McLaughlin and Danehy protest that they uphold the Open Meeting Law to the point of avoiding even social contact outside the courthouse, Ralph's suit accuses them of holding private business meetings before rubber-stamping their decisions in public. The minutes of the public sessions show that on seven occasions since McLaughlin joined the board, Ralph has arrived on time and waited as long as an hour for a second member to appear, before adjourning the meeting for lack of a quorum. In every instance, the other commissioners arrived soon after Ralph's own adjournment and held their...
...time play resumed, the Harvard end was littered with mackerel offered up by the boisterous partisans and Petrovek was confronted with a rubber chicken...
...Next to themselves, they like old-fashioned woolen union suits best. They wear heavy wool pants and, topside, pile on sweatshirts, sweaters, flannel shirts, insulated vests, jackets and parkas. They encase hands in leather mittens with wool liners, feet in two pairs of socks and heavy felt liners and rubber boots that do not leak heat. Some people sandwich a plastic bag between two pairs of socks...
...every silver cloud has a dark lining. Professors complained of students gazing glossy-eyed out of the window while they delivered lectures, and extensive congestion resulted when everyone rushed to the Harvard Coop to buy rubber shoe covers for protection from growing puddles...