Word: rubbering
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...seems that you city-slickers up there in Cambridge could learn a little more about Mother Nature. Crimson sportswriter Robert Sidorsky reported that Big Red fans at the Cornell-Harvard hockey game tied "a rubber chicken" to Petrovek's goal. Well, any self respecting Cornellian could tell you that that chicken was as live as a cow in heat. If Sidorsky can't tell the difference between a rubber chicken and a real one maybe he better come out here to the country for a few days; we would be happy to teach a city boy like him the facts...
...focused primarily on works about to go on exhibit. Transporting these objects often raises as many problems as, say, refinishing or mending them, he added. Special cases are designed to protect against bumps and the atmosphere. Yet the preventives, like their medical counterparts, often have unexpected side effects. Black rubber, which is often used to cushion picture frames from handling shocks in transit, tarnishes the metal. An experiment with a copper dish and this "dark enemy" goes on under a glass cover in a corner. And the lauded modern plastic adhesives, though stabler than old synthetics, tend to deteriorate...
...liberals in the Congress are likely to call for more social-action programs. The Congress is in a stubborn mood, determined to regain its powers. Says House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "There is no confrontation, but this is no rubber-stamp Congress...
...game is very similar to squash. It should be noted that the ball, a compressed rubber sphere, can travel 90 miles per hour leaving hands bruised and calloused (in the beginning they "swell up like a tomato") and players knocked unconscious if they are caught looking the wrong...
...time play resumed, the Harvard end was littered with mackerel offered up by the boisterous partisans and Petrovek was confronted with a rubber chicken...