Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, told a businessmen's cut-that-budget rally in Chicago that he was "fed up with global do-gooders who want to see us spend the hard-earned tax dollars of American citizens in the support of a worldwide welfare state." At his elbow Virginia's Harry Byrd, the Mr. Economy of the U.S. Senate, nodded approvingly...
...Says Dr. Hitzig: "There are unusual circumstances under which it is not feasible to remove the patient's clothing to record, blood pressure. The answer is a diaphragm (not bell) stethoscope appropriately positioned on the elbow. The auscultatory systolic blood pressure in the elbow can be confirmed by inflating the cuff and palpating the radial pulse at the wrist. When Mr. Krishna Menon collapsed at the U.N., I applied my blood pressure cuff on top of his clothing. There was a reading of 220 mm. I confirmed this blood pressure again by palpation of the radial pulse...
Crimson forward DICK WOOLSTON tosses up a hook shot despite the menacing attitude of Dartmouth center JIM FRANCIS. Note protective effect of Woolston's elbow and forearm as they tend to discourage Francis' defensive play. Captain RON JUDSON closes in from left and DAVE CARRUTHERS is behind Woolston. Height like that of Francis' (he stands six feet, eight inches in his stocking feet) enabled the visitors to gain a 45-35 rebound margin in the Blockhouse last night, but they still lost, 69 to 60. The defeat dropped their league record to 9 and 4, and gave Yale the title...
...known among the world's oil giants, usually breaks into the press only with news of his marriages and divorces (five of each). An expatriate, he lives in hotel rooms from Europe to the Levant, has little social life, usually eats alone and frugally, wears out-at-the-elbow sweaters. A notorious penny pincher, he passes out tips sparingly, constantly grumbles about the high cost of everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, and perhaps the best U.S. collection of Louis...
...Scapegoat's first chapter, set in a French provincial bar, someone jars the hero's elbow and "as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself...