Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women walked in casually and sat down. A few minutes later Barsov appeared with Pirogov. A waitress started toward them. One of the men reached out, seized her firmly by the arm and told her not to move. The seven rose. One tapped Barsov on the shoulder. "Immigration officers," he said. They hustled the Russians into the street...
...following year, he won 18 games and hit so well (.352) that he was used as an outfielder when he wasn't pitching. In a chase after a fly ball at Daytona, his career was set for him: he took a header and landed on his left shoulder. His throwing arm never felt the same after that. So Pitcher Musial, as Pitcher Babe Ruth did 22 years before him, became a full-time slugging outfielder...
...Dwarf got dressed, thrust two Lugers into shoulder holsters under his long blue gown, then stopped in a back-alley opium den to share a pipe with an underworld crony, Nai Sakon. The Dwarf complained: "Pramote has doublecrossed us all. Now he has a racing stable, a new Packard and a beautiful wife. We have nothing but worry...
...summer Sula Valley cattlemen had burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
...congressional committee posed the question: What can the Government do to combat the recession? Federal Reserve Loard Chairman Thomas B. McCabe, a Pennsylvania banker and businessman before he was a Government official, this week gave them a straight-from-the-shoulder businessman's answer...