Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Bill Boyle & wife, Mrs. 0. Max Gardner, widow of the late Under Secretary of the Treasury, Lever Bros.' Ex-President Charles Luckman and fourscore or more Cabinet officers, governors and big-shot Democrats from coast to coast. The 523 tables at which 5,300 ordinary diners sat, elbow to elbow on folding chairs, were fitted out with red, white, blue or starred tablecloths, thus creating a huge facsimile of a U.S. flag...
Second Period--Scoring: Anderson (H) (Kittredge) 4:12; Kittredge (H) (DiBlasio), 12:05; Choukas (D) (Crowley), 12:33. Penalties: Crowley (elbow check), 3:06; Carman (holding), 9:15; Sedgwick (charging) and Kerivan (slashnig...
Generation after generation with but minor variations, the drama was repeated in Oxford's pubs. Students bending the elbow in a taproom would hear a sudden whispered warning, scuttle for the back exits. The slow were overtaken by hard-breathing "bullers" (bowler-hatted, black-coated Oxford cops) who tipped their hats and inquired "Are you a member of the university, sir?" After the inevitable admission, the guilty were led to a solemn and unhurried figure standing nearby in cap & gown-a university proctor-who demanded "Name and college...
...another as a volunteer rifleman in an infantry platoon, assaulting the Naha-Shuri line on Okinawa. The platoon was advancing into heavy machine-gun fire and sniper fire when one burst stitched down his left arm from elbow to wrist and severed the main nerve. One month later he was admitted to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. for a 13-month stay...
...quarter-mile in 46 seconds, faster than any man in history. But when he tried to run on indoor tracks, where the footing is treacherous and lanes are nonexistent, he learned that he needed more than sheer speed; when fields jam up on sharply banked indoor turns, a judicious elbow shove can throw the fastest man off his stride and out of the running. Said Runner McKenley: "I didn't know how to defend myself...