Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril walked by to find Eva alone and in tears. He draped a friendly arm around her shoulder and said: "Don't rm'nd Liber. She has a screw loose. Let's have a cup of coffee...
...after all, but he had only gone to see Strollo for civic good-the way "Roosevelt went to see Stalin," he said. He had been ashamed to admit it, "because all my life I have been clean." Chauffeur Jordan had a different story: the mayor had wept on his shoulder, and moaned: "They've got me dead to rights -they must have had a bug [microphone] in the room...
...suffer discourtesy, let alone violence, at our hands." The Economist insisted that "the majority of British people are curious to see the man who stood up against Stalin, who fought a good fight against the Germans ... It would be a pity if Roman Catholics in this country found themselves shoulder to shoulder with Communists in demonstrations against his visit...
Pinay got "there" because none of the old hands was willing to shoulder the responsibility last February, when the Treasury was empty and the budget unsolved. France, where Crisis is a word rarely out of the headlines, was drifting into the Worst one yet. The country might collapse completely without a U.S. dole. The Indo-China war was going from bad to worse. In the precious North African colonies, the corks were beginning to blow. Finances were in a nightmare tangle...
...Barcelona ring. The police advised him to leave town, saying they could not be responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate, meticulously adjusted his embroidered cape upon his shoulder and his montera on his forehead, and strode alone toward the mob. The angry crowd fell silent and opened respectfully before him. That afternoon he put on such a show that he was carried back to his hotel on the shoulders of his fans. Bullfighting had a new king...