Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village of Gromyki (90% of whose inhabitants are called Gromyko), he started out as a teacher and never lost his pedantry. Molotov plucked him out of the Academy of Sciences in 1939, and his fortunes have paralleled those of his master. He was at Molotov's elbow at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam...
Maybe they learn it jaywalking across traffic, or in the subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
...than working conditions and the boss beat his wife. But even the most wishful of modern day dreamers cannot avoid thinking that a union leader is a paunchy, jowelled man with a cigar in his right fist and a Madison Avenue lawyer in a tweed suit at his left elbow...
...strategy worked. Early in the second half, with some elbow room for his long, gangling arms, Big Jim stuffed in five quick baskets, ended the evening with the heavy bag of 30 points, nearly half of S.M.U.'s winning total, 62 to A. & M.'s 53. Four days later, still stuffing baskets, Krebs led S.M.U. to a 79-63 victory over Texas Christian...
Third man Morris went through his first lap three yards behind Kirchner, but at the far turn pulled up to the Eli and went to pass him. As he tried to move in, Kirschner hit him several times with his elbow. Morris slapped at Kirschner's arm, accidentally knocking the baton out of his hand. From then on, the race was gravy. He passed to anchorman Dick Wharton thirty yards ahead of second place N.Y.U., Wharton eventually increasing the lead...