Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation). President pro tem Vandenberg took the floor to warn his colleagues: "Any lapse in our purpose or resources . . . will be an open invitation to Soviet Russia to fill the vacuum. . . . We dare not present to the world a picture of Uncle Sam with a chip on each shoulder and both arms in a sling...
...serious accident for a woman of 94-though Mrs. Truman has survived two fractures of the left hip and one of the shoulder in the last six years. At 7:45 the next morning Harry Truman took off from Washington in the Sacred Cow.* Five hours later he was in his mother's bedroom, a box full of flowers in his arms...
...Athens last week, the people were retelling an old story: when God made the world, He poured all the earth through a sieve and put down some good soil here, which was one country, and some there, which was another; then He threw all the stones over His shoulder, and that was Greece. Through the centuries Greeks managed to compensate for their hard lot (only 15% of Greece's land is arable) by organizational skill, trading talent and unflagging enterprise...
...roughest match of the meet, captain Don Louria lost two in winning the 165-pound class, his opponent retiring with an injured shoulder in the third period after being pinned earlier. Heavyweight Pete Fuller got his expected pin in 1:27 of the second period. Harvard's Pete Knox and Al Zellner lost the 128 and 155-pound classes, Knox by a decision and Zellner by a fall. Knox's opponent, Frank Ferris, was meet captain for the Bruins and Probably their ablest wrestler...
...plant superintendent Howard Lamb and a handful of other employees. They had drilled two holes in the sides of the chute leading to the pulp vat, so that some of the coupons never reached the pulp. Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...