Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Poletti took hold last February. He began by renovating his four-story, red-painted, Renaissance prefettura near the Naples waterfront. He had bomb debris cleaned up, plumbing repaired, elbow grease applied to slick up the place. Explained one of his subordinates: "You can't sell democracy in an outhouse...
...always able to give three solutions to any problem; Catto insisting that only one could be chosen. When the time came for Britain to propose a plan for the stabilization of postwar currencies (TIME, April 5, 1943), Lord Keynes drew the basic document. But Catto was there at his elbow with advice on the practical details...
During the '30s, North Dakota lost almost everything but its weathered denims and its prized "elbow room." Last year the state came back as one of the nation's biggest breadbaskets: first in spring and durum wheat production, first in barley, second in certified seed potatoes. North Dakota farms (average 1940 census value: $8,742) brought in an average 1943 income...
...arms are short from shoulder to elbow, he is more than ordinarily susceptible to stomach ulcers. If he has kept a few baby teeth, he should watch his white blood-cell count. If a child has wide-set eyes, a low nose bridge, folds of skin obscuring the inner eye-corners and wide spaces between his front teeth, he should be especially careful about exposure to infantile paralysis...
Close by the Daily News building was Louie's saloon, where a bookie named Moxie shined a well-tailored elbow on the bar. He met Lane next day: "Who's this guy Oxie? The cops'll be thinking he's me." Lane fumbled only an instant: "You don't know Oxie? Why that's Oxie O'Rourke, down the street." Thus Oxie got a last name...