Word: retracting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Pocket. The solution, Pedrick decided, was to find a way to keep the ball from going into its spin-even if it is imperfectly hit. His proposed club would do just that. Its secret: an array of tiny retractable blades jutting out from the club's metal face and imbedded in a soft elastic material (see diagram). Whenever the club made contact with the ball, some of the blades would retract, forming a small, temporary pocket. The pocket, in effect, would grip the ball and reduce its tendency to spin-regardless of the angle at which the golfer whacked...
...Corporation will stop funding the newspaper at the end of this year, and will retract its right to use the name "the Heights." College officials claimed that a recent issue of the publication "raised questions regarding criminal libel...