Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant things about working at TIME these days is to read so many friendly letters that come to us from servicemen and civilians in strange places all over the globe-and perhaps this week you might like to look over our shoulder at some random pieces from TIME'S overseas mail bag-like the letter you have just read from Captain Jack Tucker of the U.S. Infantry...
...lobby, Molotov strode ahead of his guards and encountered a San Francisco girl. Said she: "Welcome to our city." Molotov understood her manner, if not her words. He bobbed his quick, characteristic little curtsey, smiled with his eyes, and tossed something in Russian over his shoulder. Someone told the girl that he had said: "You are very nice...
None of the 18 rookies who made their debuts grabbed any headlines. One of the two best publicized, one-armed Pete Gray of the Browns, scratched a single in his first game, then hurt his shoulder diving for a line drive. The other was switch-hitting, ex-serviceman Al Schoendienst, who once swung the meanest bat in the International League (despite almost total blindness in one eye); he rapped a triple off the right field wall in the opener, then helped lose the game for the St. Louis Cardinals with a two-base error...
...lumbering height and near-sighted eyes almost ruined George's basketball career before it began. He got a cold shoulder from Notre Dame's basketball men, might never have made the grade at De Paul in normal times. But Coach Ray Meyer was hard pressed for a center. Meyer drove his clumsy recruit through dozens of daily dozens, interspersed with rope-skipping, shadow-boxing and whatever else might develop coordination until Mikan cried: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Slowly Mikan's muscles learned to obey. The onetime marble-shooting champion of Will County, Ill. eventually...
...Sultan is the nominal autocrat of three countries, in each of which somebody else is the real boss: French Morocco, the northwest shoulder of Africa; Spanish Morocco, its epaulet; and Tangier (overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar), the chip on the shoulder...