Word: elbowed
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...editing even provides awkward little pauses for the audience to fill with laughter, just as if this were still a play. As a result, some very good performers (Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton) function less as full-scale sorority sisters than as chorus members who elbow their way up front in a crowd of even sketchier characters...
...that knowledge to improve performance. An example: although Braden is a foremost advocate of top spin in tennis, he has proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis elbow." His high-speed film shows that the ball is in contact with the strings for only four milliseconds and is well on its way to the net before the player even begins rolling his racquet. "Anyway," says Braden, "if the player really hit over the ball, he would drive it into...
...most of the times, probably because of this guy named Jose. He is a middle-aged Mexican who now lives in the U.S. and he has phenomenal skills. And a phenomenal temper. Scrape him with your foot and he'd start yelling. Try to guard him and he would elbow you in the stomach. I was definitely hooked...
Second-time customer Margie Prager praised the store's "elbow room," and its many offerings in children's literature...
...addition, senior Roger Berry's elbow problems will also keep him out of the tournament. He teamed up with Joe Vidauretta to take the title in the B-doubles competition last year. Junior Jonathan Cardi is finally regaining the form that put him at the top of the Crimson's singles roster after being bothered by a nagging shoulder injury for the last 18 months...