Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bishop Herrera and those who think like him should inherit the Spain of tomorrow. Protestants could hardly expect much more elbow room than they have now. But there would be room for one modern idea, which to medieval minds is always heresy: change...
scored the first Crimson tally when he stole the puck at the B.U. blueline, skated across the center of the Terrier zone, and put a long, backhand lift just under B.U. goalie Paul Kelley's elbow. The time...
Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...
...influence swelled. Highly popular decrees revaluating the ruble and reducing prices were jointly signed by Stalin and Malenkov. When tributes to Stalin on his 70th birthday were published, Malenkov's got first play in the Russian papers. Georgy Malenkov has been the fat man at Stalin's elbow in recent group pictures of the Kremlin hierarchy...
...befriending a tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...