Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper use of a spinning rod, and late in the week he fished St. Louis Creek for an hour and a half, catching a twelve-inch rainbow on his first cast. But fly-casting was not what the doctor ordered for the President's aching right elbow, which he had bone-bruised in Washington and aggravated by his daily golf games in Denver...
...very well for Author Paton to indulge in such threnodies for his hero, rather in the manner of the chorus in a Greek tragedy. But if he had called off his chorus now and then and given his characters some elbow room, he might at least have made Too Late the Phalarope a little clearer than its title. The phalarope (a small bird like a sandpiper) serves Author Paton as a symbol for innocence. Hard to say just...
...elections," cried one man, and others took it up. The mumble became a shout. Then it suddenly stopped -at the end of the street, in front of a cordon of dark green riot trucks, stood a wall of People's Police, their grey raincoats agleam, their arms locked elbow to elbow. For a moment the front of the column hesitated and the marchers in the rear piled up in comic confusion. Then the 10,000 plunged ahead, disregarding thudding truncheons. The wall of police broke, and with a roar the marchers poured forward...
...Bossart at number four will face Williams '51 two man Bud Treman. Last year's top star at Hamilton, Jack Banks, will play the Crimson's five man Alex Haegler. Haegler is back in the lineup after a week of inaction forced on him by a tennis elbow...
Alex Haegler will probably be back in singles action today for the first time in over a week. He gave his recovering tennis elbow its first test yesterday in the doubles against Brown, and should play in the sixth singles spot today...