Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going after a soaring first-inning smash by Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner, Ted threw himself high and hard against the left-field wall. He caught the ball, and went on to play for eight innings, driving in a run and making another hair-raising catch. But his left elbow hurt. After the game (the National League won for the first time in five years, 4-3), X rays' showed why: Ted had been playing for eight innings with a fractured elbow...
Things might have been different if the_South Koreans had had their U.S. advisers at elbow. Some time ago, hardbitten Brigadier General William (Bill) Roberts, commander of KMAG (the U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group), had said to his men: "Don't fool yourselves. If war comes, you fellows are going to be the battalion and regimental commanders of this army." Unfortunately, last week Bill Roberts was out of the country, headed for the U.S. His subordinates in Korea may have been ordered by Washington to evade capture at all costs. In any case, the U.S. coaches were...
...particular, are about as easy to take as a tomahawk in the skull: babies bashed to death against trees, a prisoner ripped in half by the main force of some 20 of his captors, another with thumbs cut off and a sharp stake driven up his arm to the elbow; the torture of famed Jesuit Father Jogues, who was later massacred with his party...
Back on the Williams burg, the President burnished the yacht rail with his elbow like a Gay Nineties bartender, and called to reporters, "What'll you have, boys...
...Bunche got some valuable pointers on the art of horseshoe pitching (see cut). In Berkeley to deliver a commencement address at the University of California, Bunche was ordered into a pair of sneakers by the admiral. As the backyard game progressed, Nimitz said: "Keep your arm straight at the elbow-less tiring, more accurate." Then, plopping a perfect ringer, the admiral advised his puffing house guest: "Best exercise in the world for sedentary people...