Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngster he lived in a suburb and rode the commuting trains ... He rubbed elbows with a motley group of friends and neighbors and scrambled with them for a seat when the train came in . . . Public opinion flowed around him." But with success, writes Randall, "his schedule became so complex and the end of his day so unpredictable that a limousine and chauffeur became indispensable . . . Gone forever was the boisterous elbow-rubbing with friends who might hold contrary opinions...
...Washington to face his weekly press conference. He clearly felt like having one (he has been skipping them from time to time lately), but he just as clearly wanted to raise no fuss that would open him to further charges of aggressiveness. He could not resist sticking an elbow into the American Medical Association for its opposition to medicare, but he ducked a question about Teddy in Massachusetts, shucked off an invitation to become involved in a public dispute with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked what he thought of Ike's remark that the Republicans were a businessman's party...
...diagnosis: "Little League elbow" and "Little League shoulder." Both troubles result from the fact that bone and cartilage in youngsters have not hardened to the point where they can sustain the stress of continued hard pitching. In Little League elbow, the piece of bone that rests at the end of the elbow (the medial epicondylar epiphysis) is pulled out of position by tendons and muscles and is sometimes fractured. In Little League shoulder, the cartilage near the end of the upper arm bone (humerus) is torn loose. Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling...
Mimicry, being comedy's sharp elbow in the ribs, usually depends on the mimic's being at a safe distance from his subject -or victim; the more dignified and honored the subject, the greater the advisable distance. But an appealing showman named Elliott Reid flew down to Washington a fortnight ago with nothing less in mind than mimicking President Kennedy for the pleasure of the capital's press corps, most of the Cabinet officers, and the President himself. The result: Kennedy was convulsed, and Good Trouper Reid was once again "discovered...
...Mike Drummey lined out in bottom of the inning, Bartolet to center. Pitching to Morse, twisted his elbow, perhaps the thing that could have happened Princeton. Gerry Skey came in to walking Morse. He had better with Bernstein, fanning the big sacker, but Combs quickly out and singled to left, Bartolet...