Word: traction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Selmon, one of the most tantalizing prospects in the draft, is from a family of Oklahoma line men (Brother Lucious played guard two years ago, and Brother Dewey plays it now). Selmon's ability to shed blockers and diagnose plays is not his only at traction. "You can say all the clever things you want," says one scout, "but with Leroy it boils down to one thing...
After choosing a width for your skis, the second and a more difficult decision lies in choosing between three alternative ski bottoms. The first option is a pair of inlaid Mohair strips which allow you to glide forwards but provide traction when you push off on one ski to slide forward on the other. This is the first commercial waxless ski and is America's improvement on tying seal skins to the bottom of each...
Dylan, in traction for six months, staring at the ceiling of his hospital room, must have wrestled with quite a few personal devils. When he had recuperated, he got together with his friends Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko, and headed down to the basement of their Big Pink home in Wood-stock, N.Y. where the tracks for The Basement Tapes were laid down...
...More important, the early games can be dangerous, injury-inducing torture for athletes forced to play hard before their bodies are ready. By last week, with the regular season still a fortnight away, the casualty list was lengthening into the roster of an all-pro team in traction. A sampling...
...suburb of Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went to the provinces and summoned Walter L. Fisher. Walter T. Fisher...