Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launched a heavy barrage on the Cornell goal in the opening minutes and Cornell retaliated, with Harvard goalie Bill Diercks matching his stupendous counterpart save-for-save. The evening's hostility and whistle-blowing started just as promptly, when referee Giles Threadgold saw Cornell's Doug Ferguson plant his elbow in Pete Mueller's face...
Differing Forecasts. Despite these problems, Indira Gandhi expects the Congress Party to suffer only marginal losses, if any, at the polls. She is also confident that no one will be able to elbow her out of the prime ministry after the elections. But other Indians are less sanguine. Most forecasts predict that the Congress Party will lose control of three or four states to right-wing alliances and perhaps the state of Kerala to the Communists. The Con gress Party is also expected to lose 80 or so of the 374 seats that...
...Nancy feels fine, although she has to take cortisone shots for the pain in her still-damaged elbow, and she plans to remain in Europe for one more meet before heading home. "That's enough," she says-and the French would call that noblesse oblige...
...feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft and one-tenth of its total air strength...
...impaled on a cocktail pick. On those exceedingly rare occasions that Donald Swann opens his mouth, he can be equally and extravagantly nutty-as when he remarks on infant care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs are laid in the making of a comic omelet, but Flanders and Swann scramble their humor with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...