Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling meet, last year's Taft captain, Kris Lehmkuhl, and Murdock Whitney are the only experienced skiers competing. Neil Dickson will probably be out with a dislocated shoulder...
...industrial brass, Taft preached his own brand of reluctant internationalism,. Only two or three more U.S. divisions should be sent to Europe, he insisted, "and that would be doing a great deal more for them than they have done for us in Korea." The U.S. would probably have to shoulder at least 50% of the load in any war with Russia, "but I object to getting in so heavily that we find ourselves doing...
Whatever our differences, we must all pull together in this time of common peril. Arm and arm we must march forward into the future, with our shoulder to the wheel, our nose to the grindstone, our ear to the ground and our eye on the main chance...
...that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter, his wife, his mother and his two sisters, all of whom he supported, looked hopefully over his shoulder...
...tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...