Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always had a yearning to run away," confessed Painter Paul Gauguin in his Intimate Journals. "At Orleans, at the age of nine, I set out for the forest of Bondy-carrying a handkerchief filled with sand slung on the end of a stick over my shoulder. The picture of a traveler with bundle and staff . . . had always intrigued...
Angry Man. During the negotiations, the radio industry was casting nervous glances over its shoulder toward Washington. Colorado's Ed Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined...
...Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...
...banner of his own Hetton-le-hole Lodge go by he said: "Those youngsters are born Socialist. The blood on the coal's the same as wot's in their veins. I couldna bin two year old when me dad first carried me on 'is shoulder behind that banner. 'E wor unemployed then and for years aft.gr...
Tories wavered between laughter and pro test at this new expropriation. The heraldic description of this new Socialist symbol runs: "Per feese argent and sable three fusils conjoined in feese counter charged. The supporters - on either side a lion sable charged on the shoulder with a sun in splendour or." The board's announcement dotted the "i" of Author J. B. Priestley's comment, printed a day before in the New Statesman and Nation: "We are revolutionaries who have not swept away anything...