Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of singing, idols. The first funny thing to happen was my purchase of a $5.75 ticket. I wondered what portion of that would go into Bobby's shampoo fund. With my very own money would he buy a tube of shampoo, and with his very own hands, rub it into his scalp? That was something to consider...
There, however, is the rub. Baseball is not supposed to contain any elements that might be construed as vices. On the contrary, the noble values that the country professes are supposed to be best exemplified in the national past-time. If Americans are supposedly perfect Christians, then the athlete must be the perfect perfect Christian. If we, in our national mythology, are supposed to be rugged, steely individuals battling the frontier for survival, then the match-up of pitcher and batter, catcher and base-runner, steely-eyed individuals all, is the nonviolent equivalent of the duel between sheriff and gunfighter...
...student continued to rub his blood-shot eyes. Eventually, he looked up and away at some imaginary enemy. "I feel like getting every single one of them and shoving some tear gas up their faces. They're wearing gas masks, aren't they...
...those with sight to refrain from touching. "There's a big difference between the way blind and sighted people touch things," said one museum official. "The hands of the blind come down gently and slowly, like butterflies, while sighted people plunk their hands onto an object and rub...
Behind His Back. When a hip joint is damaged, the ball of bone at the head of the femur may rub against the roughened surface of the socket in the hip proper (see diagram), causing severe and immobilizing pain. Replacing the head of the femur with a stainless steel ball (just under an inch in diameter for the average patient) is relatively easy. The difficulty is to secure the ball to the femur. In early operations, the shaft holding the ball was screwed into the femur. Charnley was dissatisfied with the method because the shaft sometimes came loose. A dentist...