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Word: elbowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BREUER is directing a rehearsal for the American Repertory Theater production of Lulu. It is less than three hours before the audience will file in to view a preview performance. Floor-standing floodlights and mike cords vie with the actors for elbow room on the thrust stage, surrounded on three sides by technical staff who follow the action below like surgeons starting down on an operation from the balcony...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: No 'Harumphs' | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Hobson belted 30 home runs and drove in 112 runs in 1977, and tallied 28 homers and 93 RBIs in 1979. He has experienced elbow problems during his baseball career and underwent surgery two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Trade Burleson, Hobson For Lansford, Clear, Miller | 12/11/1980 | See Source »

...opponent will admit that prejudice exists, he will be hard-pressed to show that segregation would not be the inevitable result of his perfect free market economy. Compare the benefits of segregation--freedom to hate as one wishes--with its disadvantages. Grab some passing minority-group member by the elbow, and ask if he'd enjoy living in a system that guaranteed his political freedom but allowed some rich white WASP to, say, exclude him from Harvard...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Six Ways to Argue With A Libertarian | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

...Senator walked down a Capitol corridor last week, Democrat John Stennis of Mississippi, an old ideological foe, embraced him. Said Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri: "You're the best and the brightest in every respect." Republican Paul Laxalt of Nevada, another longtime antagonist, grabbed the veteran's elbow and said, "You were a thoroughbred, sir, a thoroughbred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: A Thoroughbred Stumbles | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Phillips came away from the assignment with a very personal souvenir: Borg's coach, Lennart Bergelin, undertook to massage away her chronic case of tennis elbow. "Borg calls him Dr. Black-and-Blue, and now I know why," says Phillips. "After the massage, my arm swelled up and turned a rainbow of colors. But three days later I was able to lift my arm over my head without pain for the first time in a year." And her hands to the typewriter, for a pleasing and unique look at the incredible tennis machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1980 | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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