Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 48 hours of concentrated action on the shoulder of the Red Chinese wedge the Turks were short of food and ammunition, fighting with knives and fists, hurling stones at endless waves of Chinese attackers. Yet U.S. tanks that went forward to rescue trapped Turkish units found the Turks preparing to attack. Ordered to pull back from positions where they were surrounded by the swarming Chinese, the Turkish commander replied in amazement, "Withdraw? Why withdraw? We are killing lots of them...
Field hockey is most like soccer, with the same positions, the same number of men, 11, and the same tactics, except it's played with a stick. But only one side of the stick can be used to hit the ball, and the stick cannot be raised over the shoulder. As there are only right-handed sticks, not everybody can play. The most difficult problem for the boys is the "obstruction" rule
...Opera performance in early 1951. Like other neophytes at the Met, she spent the rest of her time attending classes in the Met's affiliated Kathryn Turney Long Opera Courses, watching rehearsals, singing once in a while in rehearsal ensembles-until Manager Rudolf Bing tapped her on the shoulder last week, five hours before the curtain went up on the season's first Don Giovanni...
...Early asked for the appointment of a committee to check A.P. stories for possible bias, the majority of the editors agreed with the St. Louis Star-Times's Norman Isaacs who denounced the idea. Said Isaacs: "The effect of such would be an SS committee peeking over the shoulder of every A.P. man in the country. If this group passes a motion like that, I don't want to be part of any such organization...
...sets were whipsawed last week by full-page ads in 1,100 newspapers and sudsy commercials pouring from 250 radio stations. The American Television Dealers and Manufacturers Association was spending $2,000,000 to feature the sad plight of a winsome, pigtailed little girl blubbering on the shoulder of her pouting, sad-eyed brother. Warned the A.T.D.M.: "There are some things a son or daughter won't tell you ... Do you expect him to blurt out the truth-that he's really ashamed to be with the gang-because he doesn't see the television shows they...