Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completeness of health and strength he may fulfill his high calling in the service of mankind through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen." And when the President, bundled up in a heavy blue overcoat, left the church after service, he shrugged off the helping hand of the pastor at his elbow, instead guided Mamie firmly down the steps. He smiled somewhat wistfully as a crowd of about 300 people outside the church broke into polite applause...
...Democratic nomination for President of the U.S. TIME Washington Bureau Correspondent Marshall Berger accompanied Kennedy on key trips to the South and Midwest, which made some of the year's most remarkable political news. Almost everywhere else that Kennedy went, there was a TIME correspondent at his elbow. Says Kennedy: "It got so that whenever I got off a plane and didn't immediately see a TIME man near by, I'd wonder what had happened." For what happened, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Man Out Front...
...person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already proved (The Red Room, TIME, July 16, 1956) that she can reach elbow-deep into suppressed human feelings and dredge up more than enough to fill out her simple framework. She writes about her heavy provincial countrymen with the tough sureness of a Belgian farmer calculating the points of a work horse...
...suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though an immense and clammy toad had settled just below my diaphragm...
...woman cut her foot on a broken beer bottle. A man smashed his camera on the sidewalk when a flashbulb failed to fire. Eight nuns standing back from the curbside crowd waved their shy congratulations. Before the night ended, half a million Wisconsinites had cheered the champions, and 35 elbow-benders were in the drunk tank...