Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grange ladies' chicken dinner in Radnor, Ohio (pop. 300). Although she had just had a tooth pulled, Mrs. Markham was in fine elocutionary fettle. She exhorted her listeners in the high-school gym to vote the whole Democratic ticket. Then she dropped one hand on the shoulder of the man sitting next to her. How proud she was, Mrs. Markham said, to be standing beside "my little pal here." Everyone looked at the man, scarcely noticed until then, who sat peering over the top of the uncleared table. When he was introduced as "someone who needs no introduction -everybody...
...Over the Shoulder. Smith's fuming rivals appointed the Chicago Sun-Times's acid-tongued Carleton ("Bill") Kent, president of the White House Correspondents Association, to tell Smith what they thought of him. What Kent said they thought was terse, pithy, unprintable. Smith, however, was unabashed, and, his rivals soon were claiming, unreformed...
Then, as he was driving home from work, a traffic cop arrested him, hauled him to the station. At first, the cops told Williams that there was something wrong with his automobile registration. "Then," said Williams, "I looked over my shoulder and a girl was standing there, looking me up and down." Finally, a police sergeant told Williams that the girl and one of her friends, both 14, had positively identified him as the man who had exposed his person to them a short time before his arrest...
Duke Sedgwick, who started offensively against Cornell, suffered a bruised shoulder against the Big Red and was unable to scrimmage. His outside tackle position was filled by Phil Connelly yesterday and the rest of the first team remained constant...
Closely related, but striking more often at adolescents and adults, is the form of muscular dystrophy to which men & women are almost equally subject. The facial and shoulder muscles are weakened first; the forearms and hands are less likely to be affected. The patient may live for many years, severely handicapped...