Word: shankly
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...Shank of the Evening. In Kankakee, Ill., Police Chief Nelson put Sergeant Bert Luckey on regular duty so that he positively could not attend the annual policeman's ball. Last year the Sergeant's wooden leg broke under the pressure, spilled ball bearings and dancers all over the floor...
Quietly the House of Commons moved into the shank of a quiet afternoon. Before the half-empty benches was the Government's liberal Education Bill. Everyone loved the measure, everyone hoped it would be a cornerstone of the braver postwar Britain...
...nine bloody weeks the Allies have inched slowly up Italy's shank, their progress slowed by mined roads, shattered bridges, fiercely resisting Germans in mountain emplacements. Last week the U.S. and British forces stepped up their attack, broke through the Germans' strongest barrier below Rome...
...first phase of the Battle of Italy had ended. Between them, the Fifth, pinning down the main German force in the lower peninsula, and the Eighth,* pounding up the toe, heel and shank, had consolidated the first bridgehead on main land Europe. Now the second phase could begin...
That blow was a single historic note in a thunderous Allied bombardment of southern Italy. From Naples across the shank of the boot and down into the heel and toe, U.S. and British planes sought out harbors and ships, rail junctions and trains, highways and trucks. More than 700 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Wellingtons devastated Foggia (62,000 population), key to Italy's east-coast railways and roads...