Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another star was hovering over his three-starred shoulder boards. He would be the Navy's first full Admiral who has devoted his career predominantly to aviation...
...aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...then the index finger, then the whole hand. When he tried to bend his elbow, he found that he had lost coordination: instead of tightening one muscle and relaxing its opposite, he tightened both. One day, in answer to a nurse's question, he tried to shrug his shoulders, was startled because only one shoulder shrugged. But he learned to shrug both shoulders, to bend his arm, and (after practicing daily in a tub of water) to wiggle his toes...
...European functions were to cease, there would be two immediate effects: i) U.S. influence in the liberated countries would be drastically weakened ; 2) the Army, through its Psychological Warfare Division, would have to shoulder the whole task of providing news and in formation to Germany...
Marine Lieut. Lawson Brammer thought he saw something dark hurtling through the Okinawa sky. Before he could duck it slapped him on the shoulder, spun him around, threw him eight feet and sent his gun flying. Then it plowed a gash in the ground, ricocheted, hit again 300 yards away and exploded. Unbruised, Lieut. Brammer had cold-shouldered a Japanese shell...