Word: rubbings
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...contracts were signed, the tickets went on sale at $10 to $100 a seat, and the promotional drums began going rub-a-dub-dub. Off to a fancy Catskills resort last week went World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, accompanied by a horde of newsmen, handlers and hangers-on, as he began training to defend his title in Manhattan's Polo Grounds on June...
Richard Cwiklinski got out of his hospital bed in Milwaukee at 6:30 a.m., threw on a sports shirt and slacks, strolled down to the cafeteria for breakfast. After breakfast, he had a back rub, went for a walk in the hospital park, leisurely enjoyed the Lake Michigan landscape in the brisk spring...
...these words the worm suddenly turns; the red ink in the bookkeeper's veins begins to boil; he develops a double-entry personality; he decides to erase this intolerable female, rub out this erroneous entry in the tidy ledger of his life. And the scene in which the meek little monster attempts to execute his resolve-with the help of cigarettes, whisky, open windows, kitchen knives and even an egg whisk-is a grand piece of sustained nonsense...
With a sly slap at the banks, Heller describes himself as a foe of "institution-alization," gives his men great latitude to make their own judgments. "A man can assume his own responsibility here," he says. "I never rub a man's hair in a mistake." Because the firm's response is so fast and sure, many clients who have graduated into the "bankable" class prefer to continue working with Heller...
Confronted with a dilemma, Evangelist Billy Graham, vacationing at Jamaica's fashionable Round Hill resort, faced it squarely. Sizzling with a bad case of sunburn, he was advised that the best remedy is whisky. But Billy decided against a Scotch skin rub: "Can you imagine what the hotel servants would think if they came into my room and found me reeking of whisky? Why, it would be all over the hotel that Billy Graham was drunk...