Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...
Ballots & Bounces. At his polling place next day, the President of the U.S. had none of the privacy plain citizens are granted. He, Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret marked their ballots in open cubicles. Cameramen were almost peeping over his shoulder as he put a pencil to his lips and made one mark. As he dropped his vote into a box, a newsman asked him if he had voted the straight Democratic ticket. Said Democrat Truman: "I always follow my own advice . . . I'm the sort that says...
...jigsaw of Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
When the lights dimmed in Jordan Hall Friday night and the audience quilted down, the butt end of a guitar came out slowly through the curtain, its varnish glittering, followed by the arm, shoulder and figure of Josh White. And so it went throughout the evening--the guitar and music came first and Josh, the person, appeared only when the music stopped, to say a word or two or wipe his lips. With each song, the chords would sound first, loud and vigorous; then the words would rush in between the chords, pushed forward by the tapping of White...
...first this year, Munro may be seriously troubled by injuries, for both his fullbacks may not last the game because of injured legs. In addition, second string goalie Don Harshman is out with a broken finger and a reserve halfback, Jim Bell, has a dislocated shoulder...