Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People look at Vietnam... the figures shadowy, mostly out of sight; the voices indistinct, isolated threats without meaning; isolated glimpses, part of an elbow, a man's jacket (who is the man?), part of a face, a woman's face. Ah, she is crying. One sees the tears. Two tears. One counts the tears. Two bombing raids... I wonder what it is that the people who run TV think about the war, because they have given us this keyhole view; we have given them the airwaves, and now, at this crucial time, they have given us back this keyhole view...
...playing Dartmouth last weekend. On the final play of the Holy Cross-Dartmough game in 1968, Bob Mlaker broke his leg. He survived last Saturday's game, but dependable halfback Clark Beter did not. He is likely to miss the rest of the season because of a dislocated right elbow...
Linebacker Gary Farneti and safety Fred Martucci were missing from the defense with elbow and knee injuries. They'll probably be missing Saturday, too. The offensive unit should be intact by Saturday, but now after the B.U. game when every day is crucial to Harvard's progress, this is small consolation...
...elbow gliding along toward his test tube rack, but there was nothing he could do about it. He watched as the rack and eighteen test tubes of proteins went into the air and hit the floor. It had seemed so inevitable, even if only for an instant, that he wondered why the girl was all upset. She was almost hysterical...
Sloppy Work. Frishman, whose right arm was shattered in October 1967 when his F-4C Phantom was shot down over Hanoi, said that North Vietnamese doctors had removed his elbow but not all the steel fragments. It was a sloppy operation, said Frishman, because the doctors "are willing only to do what is necessary to keep us alive." Because of his loosely dangling forearm, he was known to his fellow inmates as "The Grim Reaper...