Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huge Secret. He died as he had lived, shrouded in dark and oriental mystery. For one of history's momentous events, the outside world had only the carefully stage-managed story told by the handful of men at Stalin's elbow. It was, nonetheless, very thorough...
Stuffy McInnis already is filling up Briggs Cage with a horde of little men who are swinging bats hopefully or throwing their arms out too early in the season. The ruggers are negotiating with the B.O.A.C. and the Elbow Beach Club for accomodations for their spring trip, and for the lucky institutions that have it, spring football practice is going great guns...
...main scoring assets are a pair of powerful wrists (strengthened by summertime golf and softball), an ability to shoot from either side, and the shifty knack of disguising his intentions. Charging into an opponent's zone, Howe has been known to ward off a defenseman with one elbow and still get off a blasting scoring shot, one-handed, past an astonished goalie. Measured speed of Howe's hottest shots: 120m.p.h...
...years ago, when the Ketchams were sighing over their own Dennis, aged 4½, and Mrs. Ketcham remarked, "Dennis is a menace." Father Ketcham, who looks like Dennis' cartoon father, had little trouble taking it from there. There was Dennis standing at a police sergeant's elbow, a slingshot sticking out of his pocket, while the sergeant barked into the phone: "That's right. Blond hair. Blue eyes, about 50 lbs. And is his favorite expression 'Try and make me'?" There was Dennis bellowing at his mother, his hand planted on his six-shooter...
Dirty Hands HOEDERER: . . . How you cling to your purity, young man! . . . You intellectuals . . . use it as a pretext . . . to do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your side, wearing kid gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbow. I've plunged them in filth and blood...