Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand for American news of the war and its corollary events has even revived a deplorable wartime habit: waiters in some cafes have again taken to looking over your shoulder if you happen to be reading the news...
Even the Kingfish's hunched-shoulder, open-palmed gestures came easy, and he was just as natural about wrapping a friendly arm around a farmer and calling him by his first name. But one thing was different: Russell was not promising to make every man a king; he was sticking to the respectful, respectable demeanor which had surprised Washington during his first two years in his father's old Senate seat...
South from Taejon last week fled a group of disreputable-looking Koreans in castoff clothes, armed with pocket pistols and .25s in shoulder holsters. They were cabinet members of the Republic of Korea on their way to join President Syngman Rhee in his hideout "White House" somewhere in Korea's far south. Taejon, South Korea's emergency capital since the fall of Seoul on June 28, was no longer a safe location for the cabinet, military men had decided...
...Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...
...thirds of the way around the three-lap course, right in front of the medieval town hall, it happened that Pietrino came shoulder-to-shoulder with the rider for a ward he had once deserted. Pietrino suddenly found himself clamped against the inside rail, was knocked off his horse and carried away with a broken ankle...