Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had 3,000 models and I don't need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...
...seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...
Eighteen months ago, as pink-faced, power-hungry Teamster Chieftain Dave Beck was leaning out across the nation to gobble non-teamsters into his big union, a rich and succulent ragout of manpower was uncovered at his very elbow. The independent Aero Mechanics Union began a lingering, unsuccessful strike at the Seattle plants of Boeing Aircraft Company...
...hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
...disputants a plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...