Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those puffing their way up the descending escalator of intellectual fashion, many have cause to remember the shrewdly placed elbow and deft umbrella of a comparative shopper in ideas called Mary McCarthy...
...home, but it was disallowed because the half had ended. He made one that counted after 1:15 of the third quarter on a long angle shot from the right. Other Crimson scorers were Shad Tubman at 17:20 of the third on a deflection off Harry Wexler's elbow, Hodnott again at 0:39 of the fourth on a pass from Dick Fisher and Ken McIntosh at 18:07 heading a corner-kick by Hank Holmes...
...more moderate." It also foresaw some possible trouble spots in the economy in the excessive rise in consumer credit and mortgage debt. The Chamber thought that the Government's efforts to restrict credit were all to the good, and concluded: "A general tightening of credit now . . . would allow elbow room to loosen credit next year to buoy up the economy if necessary...
...stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas, his was too high to reach. He had to carry a looped handkerchief on his elbow on which she could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John...
...afternoon in 1953, as she was playing volley ball in the schoolyard, Bernadete fell, giving her right elbow a nasty crack on the pavement. X rays showed a simple fracture, but the pain grew worse until last year, when a surgeon operated twice to remove tumors. When she failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told...