Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face in liberated Europe because of the scant food supplies sent there. In Belgium, for instance, the hungry populace was growing desperate. In France, to which the U.S. has sent only 10% of the food and other supplies furnished by the Germans, there was a growing chip-on-the-shoulder attitude toward the U.S. Argued Hopkins and the State Department: democracy in the liberated countries will founder on empty stomachs...
...Happiness and Prosperity." By June 1944 Woolton had produced the first governmental attempt to shoulder a major postwar responsibility: the prevention of depressions. His white paper proposing to stabilize employment was a bold assumption of government responsibility, although it did not espouse drastic economic means (TIME, June 5). Four months later, Woolton hit the headlines again, this time with his social-security plan, or, as he exuberantly dubbed it, his "prosperity and happiness program" (TIME, Oct. 9). Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own ''cradle...
American women come from the same pioneer stock as American men. Any picture of them weeping on the nearest shoulder, exchanging embroidery stitches, mooning and moaning over trivialities is mere fiction...
While waiting for Dr. Silvis to finish, I walked back to the recovery tent. One man wore a plaster cast which covered him from toes to chest. His right arm had been amputated about six inches below the shoulder. He was the only amputation case in the ward, but one of the doctors said that there had been a lot in the past few days - several where two limbs had been lost, two cases where three limbs had been cut off. One of the latter had died after being evacuated...
...dimly lighted stage, a doctor appears to draw sausages and a balloon out of a G.I.'s gaping shoulder-while an announcer tells a ghost story...