Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...
Harvard's rifle team outshot the University of New Hampshire, 1320-1277, Saturday afternoon in a shoulder to shoulder match at Durham. This was the last Eastern Collegiate Rifle League match before the semifinals this Saturday...
...varsity rifle team has a shoulder to shoulder match with the New Hampshire team today at Durham...
...most part, Britain's Labor government had been content to let Colonial Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...
...Black & Tans. The free-for-alls of O'Casey's Volume IV are set in the years when Eire was finally obtaining her independence. Black & Tans roar through Dublin in armored cars, Irish rebels fight them off shoulder to shoulder-and, after defeating them, turn their ferocity against one another. The air is full of flying shillelaghs, ecclesiastical croziers, broken staves of office, and splintering scepters. But olive branches are missing from the scene and O'Casey, parodying Yeats, chants sarcastically...