Word: elbowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supply-ship days from San Francisco; Bangkok, main staging point for any operation in Laos, is 9,000 miles and 60 supply-ship days.) To make sense of it all, Don Felt leans heavily on a staff of 240 officers. A carefully chosen political adviser is always at his elbow. But from the carrier ready rooms in the South China Sea to the humming headquarters above Pearl Harbor, there is no doubt about who is "Mr. Pacific." "Mean as Hell." Don Felt starts the day at full throttle ("mean as hell," says an ex-aide), and never slows down. Traffic...
...that everything went according to plan. Jack Kennedy's working headquarters was the drawing room of his Georgetown home. There, a wood fire in the grate, a toy donkey belonging to his daughter Caroline in the corner, a book about Congress and Government spending at his elbow, Kennedy met visitors, discussed his problems and his hopes...
...according to Gould, Hupfer had subjected him to "unduly strong handshakes and other demonstrative physical acts." This time, Gould claims, Hupfer approached him from behind and "recklessly or negligently let both forearms down with considerable force on [Gould's] neck and left shoulder, driving [Gould's] left elbow against the arm of the chair in which he was sitting." Last week, charging that injuries to his neck, shoulder and spinal disks had cost him $25,000 in doctor bills and missed concert fees, delicate Pianist Gould filed a $300,000 damage suit against Steinway for failing to curb...
Simple Dexterity. Prime element in he Sones-Shirey method is the catheter, a snakelike, 31-in. tube that tapers in diameter from 3.2 mm. down to 1.6 mm. at its tip. The catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...
...York Giants. A small trans mitter was sewed into Huff's padding during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...