Word: turtleback
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...trouble unlocking the turtleback; moving-day fingers are always thumbs. Once it was up, she and the apartment doorman, pulling out three typewriters and an armload of packages, got in each other's way. Inside the apartment she found that the movers had not yet arrived with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...
...regarding momentum or flying mass plays. The new rule provides that not more than three men shall group for a momentum-mass play more than five yards back of the point where the ball is put in play. The close mass plays, such as the revolving wedge and the "turtleback are of course not prohibited by this rule...