Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just finished making a new portable seismograph, designed to record the earth vibrations caused by dynamite explosions. That was last spring. Like most Americans, Harvard's Professor L. Don Leet had never heard of the Manhattan Project. But in June, the professor was tapped lightly on the shoulder and spirited away to New Mexico. There his new gadget went to work recording the biggest man-made explosion in history...
...Sergeant Baldassare, bald and toothless, his shoulder awry from a Japanese blow, had kept himself alive to say a little more than that, and in different tones. He stopped outside the courtroom and made a fierce little speech...
Marika Rivera, another little-noted daughter of a much-noted man, also got her picture in the papers (see cut). A dancer, the shapely offspring of shapeless Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, she turned up on the Riviera, got a little nonsensical publicity by trying on the shoulder pads of a footballer on the U.S. Air Forces all-star team...
...everyone had expected, the Senate disregarded all this argument, voted for the men Harry Truman had appointed. If the President was leaning over backward to avoid Woodrow Wilson's great mistake-turning a cold shoulder to U.S. politicians during the peacemaking-the Senate was more than willing to copy the stance. But the debate had made it plain that a knot of young progressives would not stay quiet if they thought the success of world politics was being sacrificed to politics at home...
...best people in Washington braced themselves last week. Raucous, redheaded Colonel Robert Sharon Allen was about to get out of the Army. They remembered him, somewhat apprehensively, as a combative, profane reporter who would as soon punch a news source in the eye as tap him on the shoulder...