Word: taping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice and only one day of practice per week, players are unable to maintain the stamina and hardness necessary to avoid injury. To add further to a general picture of murderous laxity, House teams do not always observe the meager one day of practice each week, individuals neglect to tape their ankles before games, and many players never report a minor injury until it develops into a stretcher case...
When peace came, Rolf went to the U.S., where he got a job as a truck driver in Manhattan. Gitte longed for Rolf and Rolf longed for Gitte. Rolf filed affidavits for her support, but for two years official red tape held her fast in Frankfurt. At last Gitte decided to ship herself by air freight...
...Call. When General Omar Bradley took over V.A. in 1945, he offered Dr. Hawley an unattractive job. Veterans' medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
...also enjoyed one minor triumph over governmental red tape. A bronze bust of the President had been presented by Mexico's President Miguel Alemán to the University of Kansas City, where both received honorary degrees last spring. But because no evaluation had been made to customs officers (although no actual duty is required on art for exhibition), the 600-lb. statue had remained in the Kansas City customs office since last June, padded with 18 seat cushions from a Mexican bullfight ring. Last week a satisfactory price tag was finally attached and the statue released. The price...
...second in the 100-yard freestyle, and Woods, who broke two records when the Freshmen topped Yale, followed in Dave Murray, former Crimson backstroke, in the 150-yard backstroke. In the same meet Chuck Hoeizer, in repitition of many an occasion last winter, led the breast-strokers to the tape...