Word: slipperyness
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Off with His Head. Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck. A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips. The winches whined again and dragged the naked...
Although no other eastern team is using gloves, McCurdy said that the idea has bees tried before. "Several coaches attempted to use rubber surgeon's gloves but found that they were too tight and slippery. So we tried cotton gloves and they seem to have worked out quite well."
But against Hoad in the finals, everything worked. When necessary, Ken found he could command the net himself. His long, flat drives flicked baseline chalk so often that overworked linesmen seemed to make more errors than he did. He pulled Hoad up with sneaky drop shots. He sent him scurrying...
Time was when pitchers got a better break. Before Babe Ruth taught club owners that home runs and high-hitting games mean cash customers, the game was played with a dead ball. Often when a home team took the field for the first time, they used a "refrigerator" ball, carefully...
Died. Boleslaw Bierut, 63, first secretary of the United Polish Workers' (Communist) Party, longtime slippery provocateur who was picked by the Russians to head the Moscow-sponsored Polish (Lublin) government during World War II and was muscled in as head of state two days after the Red army "liberated...