Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxpayers, unhappily preparing to shoulder the load of the biggest peacetime budget in history (including $10.5 billion in foreign aid), got a fast estimate of the Government's Point Four plans for Pakistan, which is scheduled to get $8,000,000 to $12 million this year. The word, as reported by the New York Times from an official source in Karachi: "Paltry .. . [we are] insulted...
Baptist Truman, unimpressed by the petitions, bristled angrily at a reporter who asked if he intended to send a personal representative to the Vatican. He will not name a personal representative, snapped Truman, but will again propose an official ambassador, and the Senate will have to shoulder its responsibility...
Breaststroker Neal Bird, who broke the Naval Academy record three weeks ago, dislocated his shoulder Tuesday afternoon and will be out for the remainder of the season. The Middles' outstanding distance man, Jan Vanderaluis, contributed to the Crimson cause by falling down a flight of stairs and spraining his ankle...
Although Adlai Stevenson was a rank amateur in practical politics when he became governor of Illinois in 1949, he inherited a rich family tradition of public service. His ancestral hero is great-grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who trudged into Illinois with a knapsack over his shoulder in 1832. Jesse Fell was a lawyer who became a real-estate developer and city planner, and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first to describe Lincoln as presidential timber. A staunch Republican, Fell proposed the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and played an important part in the Lincoln-for-President campaign...
...brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as a U.N. delegate to the truce conference. The admiral wore a plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg, he'd look like any banker or solicitor arriving for a day's work...