Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed your commentary on the World Marble Championship [April 11]. The "upstart colonials" are, in fact, a group of stockbrokers who found themselves in the same pub during the recent New York Stock Exchange Wednesday closings. The transition from elbow bending to shooting marbles was a natural. While it is true that we failed to appear at the championship this year, we had good reason: the application form we requested last October arrived April 2-just two days before the contest. In any event, unless we lose our marbles, we will be there next year...
Wandering Elbow...
...will be either Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, a Socialist, or Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, a conservative. The Soviets reckon that a relaxed policy toward West Germany would aid Brandt's cause, while a continued hard-line stand would surely enhance the possibility that Strauss might some day elbow aside Kurt Kiesinger as Chancellor...
...grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points by "jamming" or lapping opponents, who fight them off with elbow jabs, strangleholds and something called the "jumping-hip block." Points are scored by passing members of the opposing team...
...instance, it never even occurs to me to shake hands or salute with my left hand. I long ago learned to use right-handed scissors with ease. At dinners, when seated next to a righthander, I automatically keep my left elbow close to my side when eating to avoid bumps-and when things are too close at a table, I switch to eating with my right hand, another trick I taught myself long...