Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About 50 shoulder-padded huskies came out for workouts over the six-week period and absorbed some of the newer wrinkles of the Harlow system. But spring practice never means very much; there aren't any crowds...
...Chang Chun, being of inferior talent, is now given a very unsuitably tremendous burden and is afraid of his inability to shoulder it. Especially he fears he cannot perform his duties-even though he will use every exertion-due to difficulties confronting the nation and the heaviness of official work...
...Member tried to get the attention of Laborite Neil MacLean, called sotto voce, "Neil . . . Neil." Six women, they say, knelt.) Brigadier Sir Charles Howard, the Serjeant at Arms (who insists that his title be spelled that way), wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings, bore on his right shoulder the five-foot, knob-headed gilded mace which is the House of Commons' symbol of authority. Then, stiff and staring straight ahead, came the Speaker, handsome Colonel Clifton Brown. His grey wig reached to the shoulders of his long black gown, the train of which was carried by a bearer...
...without dapper Harry Bull, 100-year-old Town & Country was bound to change. In his dozen years as editor, he had tailored it to his own well-bred tastes; the Chief (a fellow alumnus of St. Paul's and Harvard) had never so much as peeked over his shoulder. Bull had tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich and the able" a nodding acquaintance, at least with such dressy writers as W. H. Auden, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alec and Evelyn...
With no fuss, the Russian stepped up to a youngish man with a briefcase under his arm and a dirty brown felt hat pulled over his ears, and commanded: "Eeh, Du! Komm!" The German froze, casting a terrified glance over his shoulder at the frightened stream of men & women who were trying not to see or hear. The Russian waved his Tommy gun and curled his lip. "Komm!" He pushed his petrified recruit roughly into the gutter...