Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modell was not just dreaming. The opening of the pro-football season is still two weeks away, but this Saturday 80,000 rabid fans will elbow into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to watch the Browns v. the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants v. the Detroit Lions in a pro-football "doubleheader." The games are mere preseason exhibitions-the kind of practice scrimmage that no one used to notice. But now pro football is growing so wildly popular that no one can wait for the official gong. Many games are sellouts, and those...
Those visions are all nourished out of a brown folder and a stack of papers that are always at Lyndon's elbow. The contents: polls, polls and more polls...
...announce, "I love you." On a warm Washington evening, the two may saunter out of the White House, head for the grassy darkness beneath a giant tree. There Lady Bird may lie down with her arms stretched over her head. Lyndon may sprawl beside her, propped up on his elbow so that he can look into her face, and they talk quietly...
Injuries have hurt, of course. Roseboro will be out of action for a week, and Pitcher Johnny Podres has been idle since May because of a bone chip in his elbow. Outfielder Tommy Davis was hampered early in the season by a shoulder injury-but that scarcely explains how a man who led the National League in batting for two years in a row can be hitting .272 now. Moans Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "There were at least nine ball games we would have won if Davis could just have hit a long...
...statesman of Burke's stature would be so unchivalrous as to lump economists in such questionable company-or so unwise as to be without an economist at his elbow. In the palaces and Parliaments of a hundred countries, economists are increasingly called upon to build, revive or draw together national economies. Their home is no longer the ivory tower, and their profession is no longer the "gloomy science" but a romantic and rewarding wielding of power. Lively activists, they range the world in pursuit of the universal goal of economic growth...