Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists demanded her resignation as mayor, besieged her home, picketed the town hall. One day an agile comrade; threw a right hook past a policeman's shoulder to Renée's Grecian nose, altering its shape somewhat. Her sponsors whisked her to a refuge. But she would not resign...
...they were unbeaten, every team was pointing for them. Michigan's team was decidedly superstitious about their winning ways. At training table, no one would think of changing his seating order. In the locker room, players remembered which teammate had helped pull their jerseys down over their shoulder pads before the first game of the season, and made sure that the same man did it every game. The squad's biggest superstition: by unspoken agreement, no one ever mentioned the words that everyone thought about most: the Rose Bowl...
Once, in his excitement after a brilliant violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
...rooters were short of feminine companionship there was still at least one hand too many on the Crimson side of the field. According to a local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...
Dick looked anything but Machiavellian when he rused out to greet Bucky Harrison after that worthy had place kicked the point after touchdown. Harlow congratulated Bucky and placed an affectionate arm around his shoulder, taking great care to use only two hands this time...