Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VISITORS are invariably shocked. They see Americans cheerfully discarding cars, refrigerators or washing machines from which a French peasant, say, or a Greek shopkeeper would still get years of use. They are amazed at the serviceable suits that an American sends off to the Salvation Army the minute an elbow gives way or a knee frays. Tin cans that would roof a million Caribbean cottages are tossed onto scrap heaps. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and replaced by new ones with an economic life expectancy of only 50 years. Waste, outrageous waste, cry the critics-and by no means...
...Elbow. Erhard's decision to avoid a showdown brought sighs of relief from the Brutuses within his party who had been fearful of the consequences to their own reputations if they bloodied their hands in public. But there was little chance that Erhard would succeed in forming a new coalition government...
Familiar Approach. In the press gallery above, Political Columnist Stanley Uys of the Johannesburg Sunday Times watched the messenger elbow his way through milling Assemblymen and approach Verwoerd. "I thought he was going to pat Dr. Verwoerd on the back," said Uys. "I thought he was being excessively familiar. Then I saw the knife...
...shots-three so far. The last one, three weeks ago, had to go directly into the joint to ease the agony. "It does hurt more," he admits. "In fact, it hurts most of the time." He cannot straighten the arm beyond 22°, and the bone spurs on the elbow have grown from i in. to i in. "The spurs," says Dr. Kerlan, "represent an attempt by the body to immobilize the joint." Despite all, Koufax has not missed a turn...
...Dodgers can only be grateful. Sandy's 21 and 8 record is the reason Los Angeles is still within hollering distance of Pittsburgh and San Francisco for the National League lead. With eight starts remaining, Sandy may still wind up with 25 victories, but the elbow will eventually get him. That is medically certain; surgery on the spurs, says Dr. Kerlan, would only accelerate the arthritis. "I seem to be getting worse as the season goes on," says Koufax, "and the curve is not as good as it used to be." Retirement has even crossed his mind, perhaps after...