Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimmest winters in grim Russian history was drawing near. Yet New York Timesman Ralph Parker found "little brooding or despondency," even in homes struck by war casualties. The common experience of air raids, battles, occupation and flight drew the people together. As war's sharp elbow kept nudging their ribs, the Russians snatched what pleasures they could...
...Philadelphia, Sun Oil Co., which had held out a helping hand to gas-rationed eastern-seaboard motorists, last week had it bitten off half way to the elbow...
Just about the biggest advantage a TIME writer has over a newspaper reporter racing for his deadline is the help of a trained research assistant always at his elbow to help dig out the facts he needs to make his stories vivid and clear and factual...
...eleven years (with 10% of the gross receipts going to Navy relief), are staging the best tennis show of the season. Except for Defending Champion Fred Perry, who fell on his arm opening night of last winter's professional barnstorming tour and is still unable to bend his elbow without wincing, its cast includes most of this generations best shotmakers. Favorite among the field of 32 is Don Budge, now a physical education director at Miami's Embry-Riddle Aviation School and still considered America's No. 1 tennist...
Blitz. Near Elbow Lake, Minn., a bolt of lightning tore through the roof of a schoolhouse, sent a splinter through a globe of the world. The splinter neatly removed Japan, left the rest of the globe intact...