Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrug. Naguib, a brigadier, took charge of a machine-gun and infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer his troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe. "Why do you risk your life in this needless way?" asked his commanding officer. "It's not needless," replied Naguib. "It makes my men fight better...
...luck, Naguib was eventually badly wounded. The first bullet pierced his shoulder. The second tore a gaping hole in his lung, and the Israelis, who won the battle, left him for dead. He was nursed back to health by Dr. Mahmoud Naguib, his younger brother...
...overtaken this planet," he has since accused the British Broadcasting Corp. again & again of "unprecedented acts of vandalism" and of "ineffable impudence" for its "butchering of whole works" and "massacring of masterpieces." He has shushed audiences for covert whisperings, or told them outright to shut up. Over an outraged shoulder, he has hissed at them as "savages" for untimely applause. He has locked the doors on latecomers. He has lectured and admonished audiences from the podium in picturesque and often vivid language. According to Sir Thomas, the British are "a race of barbarians" consistently guilty of musical "turpitude...
...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...
...Simple Question. In Manhattan, Mrs. Frank Bianco, 29, complained in an assault charge (later withdrawn) that when she questioned her husband about lipstick on his shirt, he scissored her shoulder-length hair to a crew...