Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unwelcome Suitor. The Central's lap, however, proved to have scant attraction for the other heiresses. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad stockholders flatly rejected Central overtures in favor of merger talks with the more profitable Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The Central was also rebuffed when it tried to elbow into the projected merger of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad. And since the Pennsylvania owns 32.6% of the Norfolk & Western's voting stock, Perlman began to fear that the girl he had rejected might join the N. & W.-Nickel Plate combine, leaving...
...gave up trying to ignore the point of her elbow. He wondered if she would move first, as she often did, slipping her hand into his.... He noticed how rigidly she was sitting; why did they both go on pretending to study? He looked at the clock; already half an hour wasted. God, I wish we'd had a chance to make love so I wouldn't feel like I'm going crazy. ...I bet she needs it, he thought, that's why she's so quivvery, close to tears, and maybe that's why I loused up that exam...
...hovered near by, brandishing a hairbrush. The little girl pursed her lips and swung her baton with the same concentration and faultless precision that another might devote to a game of jacks. The baton shot up and around as the girl flipped it into a neck roll, then an elbow roll, then an elbow roll with a throw-out, then a shoulder roll with a cutback, and a hitch kick, and a split jump, and then a tour jete. Beaming with satisfaction, her mother patted the daughter on the head, flicked a speck off her shoulder, and said...
...case cited by Dr. Ofeigsson is that of a woman whose whole arm was scalded when she was a child of two. A kinswoman plunged the child's arm into a bucket of cold water, but only up to the elbow. Her hand and forearm healed well and are almost unscarred, whereas the unimmersed upper arm is a mass of scar tissue. Dr. Ofeigsson's rules for first aid in burns covering less than 20% of the body's area...
Development of the Vine is one more step in a process that has enabled little (5,600 employees) Cummins Engine Co. to elbow aside the giants and carve out for itself 60% of the U.S. market for diesel truck engines. Cummins' achievement is all the more remarkable since it makes no trucks itself, must depend for its sales on the loyalty of truckers who specify Cummins engines when they order from the truck manufacturers (who would understandably prefer to install their own engines). In response to truckers' demands, most of the major truckmakers-White, Mack, International Harvester...