But the Koh-I-Noor of the lot was the Veg-O-Matic of 1963, a sort of guillotine for vegetables, which are forced through a circular platform of adjustable steel blades by a cleated, wing-shaped manual plunger.
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During his football career, Pollard often was forced to change clothes in closets, was refused shower services, traveled separately from his team, was spat upon by fans, had his hands cleated by opponents and rarely jogged onto the field until moments before kickoff.
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In the grassy meadow ahead of him, a muddy two-track clearly displays the tell-tale cleated tracks of knobby tires; 300 yards away, another group of hunters has illegally driven several pickup trucks to a camp secluded by an island of trees.
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In most escalator models manufactured after 1950, both the riser and the tread of each step is cleated ( given a ribbed appearance ) with comb like protrusions that mesh with the comb plates on the top and bottom platforms and the succeeding steps in the chain.
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Denzel Washington, clad in black shorts, maroon golf shirt and cleated shoes, is anything but the stylish leading man strutting around the football practice field at Clarkston High School in DeKalb County, Ga . And he's barking like somebody had better step up to win one for the Gipper.
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Wellington Mara received a Polaroid camera from his parents, and at the prompting of an assistant coach named Vince Lombardi, Mara began taking pictures of the team's offensive formations and defensive alignments from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium, dropping them to the field in a sock weighted by a cleated football shoe.
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This may not be a determining factor in deciding who has just won a fight, but the unalterable facts are that when it was over Ruiz is the one whose face looked as if the entire Patriots offensive line had just run over it in full cleated glory and that it was Ruiz, not Holyfield, who needed a quick trip to a nearby hospital.
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In a 1913 piece, Arghezi targeted scholar Ioan Bianu for allegedly mismanaging the Romanian Academy Library : " From his longjohns and his cleated boots, Mr . Bianu has jumped straight into the aristocracy and [ . . . ] turned our library [ . . . ] into his own, Transylvanian, empire . [ . . . ] An impertinent voice submits one to a detailed interrogation.
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These are such common-place, little-sister inequities that Julie Foudy, a member of the gold-medal-winning 1996 Olympic soccer team, recalled her delight at finding out that not only had Reebok created a cleated shoe on a woman's last, but that it wasn't " this pink, plastic thing . . . very condescending to women ."
