Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child, Konrad Adenauer was instructed by his father: "Do not let yourself be diverted until you have finished, not even if a cannon goes off at your elbow." Amid thunderous salutes on the eve of his retirement, West Germany's 87-year-old Chancellor remained faithful to that maxim. This week Ludwig Erhard, his longtime Economics Minister, against whose succession he had fought bitterly, takes over as Chancellor. In Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, Adenauer gaveled to order the 700th and last Cabinet meeting since he took office...
...women on the right of "Two Figures Happening" all the more remarkable. The figure on the left displays typically massive thighs and a heavy torso inclined forward. The right-hand figure is powerful but much lighter. She twists toward her companion and her left arm, bent at the elbow, is thrown across her face. There is grace but not freedom. Both figures really seem to be "happening," to be struggling free of the surrounding darkness. Even in a classical motif Lebrun preserves the heaving of his visceral world...
...Every Elbow. If the Russians were in evidence before, their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
...knows how many Russian troops remain in Cuba, but there are at least 4,000 nonmilitary technicians, and they have a say in everything. At each ministry a Russian adviser sits at the elbow of the Cuban in charge. The Russians are well aware that there is no romance left in Castro's revolution; and they are relentlessly pushing the Cubans to get to work. Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Alexeev has told friends: "Let's give the Cubans three or four years to straighten...
Horror of Houlihcms. The bulldogger closes with the steer on his right, leans far over, and leaps. "I try to get the right horn in the bend of my elbow, and I grab the other horn with my left hand," explains Bynum. "That's to turn him left, and when he turns he's on one foot. Then you grab that muzzle and that off-horn and just try to wring his neck 'cause it won't break nohow." If the bulldogger's leverage is firm and his power is steadily exerted, the unstable steer...