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...rustics on Maui are doing it better. Our device is fitted with a minicomputer; a dial on one's wrist indicates Off, Mild, Medium or Wow! Muzak accompanies our gadget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...with junior right wing Sara Fischer watching from the penalty box, B.U. notched a power-play goal on a quick wrist shot that skimmed past fledgling goalie Katie Williams...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: B.U. Outskates Icewomen, 5-3; Late Crimson Surge Fails | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...another wrist shot strayed into the net for B.U. at 6:58, and though freshman Alex Lightfoot brought the crowd to its feet with a quick breakaway soon after the goal, she failed to tally for the Crimson...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: B.U. Outskates Icewomen, 5-3; Late Crimson Surge Fails | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...John Burgess and of William Dunning that gave credibility to contemporary theories of racial inferiority proposed by social and biological sciences. Sure they were wrong because they allowed their racist attitude to influence their writing of history, Handlin says. Nonetheless, they deserve no more than a slap on the wrist. After all, these works "were products of serious scholarship, had respectable scientific underpinnings, and earned respect as useful contributions to the solution of current problems." Some people found them useful, anyway--state legislators held up these books as supporting "evidence" for Jim Crow laws. But Handlin excuses "the occasional racist...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Tale of Woe | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Brothers Niekro throw the most difficult pitch to control. Once the ball leaves the hand, no one, not even the man on the mound, knows where it will end up. Gripped with the fingertips and, unlike every other pitch, thrown with a completely stiff wrist, the ball should not spin. A revolving ball slices through the air; a spinless knuckleball floats free in the breeze, its trajectory altered by every passing zephyr. A gale wind in Candlestick Park or, it would seem at times, a cough from a fan in the front row of the Astrodome can change its course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baffling Batters with Butterflies | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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