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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot her in the stomach. She fell, started to get up, and I fired another shot, hitting her in the face. About that time my brother Robert, eleven years old, started toward the phone . . . to call the police. I shot him, and I think I hit him in the shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Night of the Game | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Sophomore Job Bray evened the score 17 seconds afterwards, when he slapped a Norm Wood pass in, over Bruin netminder Bob Copp's shoulder. But, from then on. Brown's fancier, stick handling and more aggressive play bottled up the Harvard attack...

Author: By James M. Storey, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Brown Defeats Sextet, 7-2, But Yardlings Rip Cubs, 6-2 | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

...next period on a penalty shot. He was tripped by Husky wing Bill Doherty with nobody but the goalie between him and the cage. Taking the penalty shot all alone at the blueline, he lifted it over Picard's right shoulder from 15 feet...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Sextet Fights Gamely, But Bows to N.U., 3-2 | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

While Savitt sulked, the Aussie tennis fans fidgeted in their seats and shouted: "Come on and play, Savitt!" Referee Piper shrugged his shoulders and left the court to get help from a higher authority, Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association. During the five-minute discussion that followed, Sir Norman put his arm around Savitt's shoulder and pleaded with him to play. Still sulking, Savitt turned his back. Finally, 13 minutes after his walkout, and at the earnest urging of his doubles partner, young (18) Ham Richardson, Savitt went back on to the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeuppance Down Under | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

When the haughty Duchess of Cleveland, another of the King's mistresses, put on airs with her baseborn rival, Nell gave her a friendly whop on the shoulder, and remarked philosophically that "persons of one trade loved not one another." And one day, when popular hostility to Rome was at its height, Nelly's coach was mobbed by Whigs, who thought it carried the King's Catholic mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth. Never at a loss, Nell stuck her head out of the window and bellowed: "Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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