Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...featured match of the evening, Eliot's Whitey Black retained his title in the Unlimited class on a forfeit against Bob Wiley of Lowell. The bout was called early in the third period due to a light shoulder injury incurred by Wiley...
Arms & the Man. In Toledo, onetime Conscientious Objector Charles Cline, 30, who had served two years in a Michigan federal prison for refusing to shoulder a gun, was given one to three years in Ohio Penitentiary for carrying a concealed weapon...
...tirelessly about house, barn and fields. He stood "smiling into space" while Gos tore at his ungloved hand and ripped his cheek. After days of inching progress, Gos accepted a 24-yd. creance (length of twine). White's next job was to teach Gos to fly to his shoulder. At first White cringed as Gos pounced, claws first. There was always the chance that the hawk would strike at his face. Five yards, two yards-soon White could stare at the hawk until he was only a few inches away. The next step was to fly Gos against live...
...four Harvard Halls standing at that time, some in abandoned "Tory Row" houses, and the rest in barracks which bulged out on the Common. Then came that memorable day, July 2, 1775, when General Washington--decked out in "blue cost, buff under-dress, and rich epaulette on each shoulder"--marched down the road from Watertown. At this point, historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted...
...Brucker, 27, intern in "Female Admitting," shook his head and patted the brother on the shoulder. The woman was wheeled away, for oxygen and digitalis, and more detailed examination. The next case, a woman with an injured leg, arrived in a wheelchair...