Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handicap. In Toronto, Stuart H. Glass, suing for shoulder injuries resulting from an auto smashup, declared that the accident had added "10 to 15 strokes" to his golf game...
Early one day this week, the two Noble Guards in front of the Pope's private apartment clanked their halberds as they came to attention. Pope Pius appeared on the threshold, solemnly robed in a red velvet shoulder cape and a gold-embroidered stole...
That left the Zeitung in charge of Editor Kendall Foss, with the three-man board looking over his shoulder. Said Foss: "A satisfactory solution." But the argument had hardly helped the paper's prestige. By week's end, the Zeitung's circulation (542,000) had dropped...
John P. (Stuffy) McInnis was born in Gloucester on September 19, 1890. When he was big enough to shoulder a baseball bat, he started playing ball. "Just as soon as the snow was off the streets," Stuffy explains, "we'd be out playing under the lights with a yarn ball our mothers would knit for us. When we knocked the yarn apart, we'd pull it back together with black tape." Stuffy did his share of the knocking. In fact, his nickname resulted from it. Whenever the youngster would make a hit or come up with a hard grounder...
Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...