Word: shin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Allies rolled up the shin of the Italian boot, while the northern end of the main Italian battle line stood silent. The aim of Allied Commander Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander seemed clear: to push back the German right flank, smash into it with his troops at the Anzio beachhead...
...Regimental Ball still lives in our case-besotted heads. Well, why not? It was quite a shin-dig. Naturally all the boys from the South flocked to the affair, it being held in the GEORGIAN Room...
...German prisoner in Italy told his captors last week that his comrades had orders to hold their present positions for two months. In the retelling, the story got better and better: "many prisoners, captured documents, intercepted orders. . . ." Suddenly the air grew cold along Italy's shin and there were snow flurries on the hilltops. And so, what with the garrulous prisoner and the cold snap, a phrase was born. The Germans, it was said, had taken a stance along a "winter line...
Shifted from the so-called B to the so-called A team was Paul Pearson, who was credited with outstanding work in last week's Andover game. Meanwhile, the soccer squad has lost the services of Julio Ortega-Sempar because of a broken shin bone. Bob Woodside will start, but his ankle will probably keep him out for most of the game...
...went to the polls last Sunday to elect seven governors and the 147 mem bers of its Chamber of Deputies. The day was warm, picnics popular, voting light and the closing days of the campaign comparatively dull. Results: two dead; eleven wounded; five students beaten; a woman arrested for shin-kicking her husband's opponent; the incumbent P.R.M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution) apparent winner of approximately 140 seats...