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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pawky Poet | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...only one left now was Five Kinds of Writing, lying alone in the dust. Vag lifted it and opened it carefully to "Why I am a Marxist" again. He started reading, and paused for a minute to look over his shoulder. Then he quickly crouched over the box, dug into pile with his free hand, and slipped the book back at their box, working faster and faster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/29/1950 | See Source »

...only one left now was Five Kinds of Writing, lying alone in the dust. Vag lifted it and opened it carefully to "Why I am a Marxist" again. He started reading, and paused for a minute to look over his shoulder. Then he quickly crouched over the box, dug into the pile with his free hand, and slipped the book into the heap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/29/1950 | See Source »

...Motta is a sturdy fighter with an in & out record who currently holds the middleweight championship of the world. He won it on a fluke 15 months ago from the late Marcel Cerdan (TIME, June 27, 1949), who fought, after the first round, with the handicap of a torn shoulder muscle. In Detroit, where Jake had the luck to win his title, he defended it last week against Frenchman Laurent Dauthuille. Jake was lucky again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Saved Before the Bell | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Myself, only half of a figure of a sort, A figure half seen, or seen for a moment, a man Of the mind, an apparition apparelled in Apparels of such lightest look that a turn Of my shoulder and quickly, too quickly, I am gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Pies | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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