Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dressed at 5:30, and out striding along downtown sidewalks at 5:45. At one point during his jaunt he spotted a naval enlisted man named William Hall, standing on the sidewalk in a heated post-dawn argument with a taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer: the Pacific. The taxi driver drove off as though he had just seen the biggest traffic cop in the world...
Down the streets of Boston, a rifle on his shoulder, marched a brand-new private of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 59, former Chief of Naval Operations...
...North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder to spatter the kibitzers. On cold winter jaunts he protects his hands from the bitter Lake Michigan wind by wearing woolen socks on them while painting...
...protest against the Roman Catholic Church's 19th Century policy of limiting most native Philippine priests to posts as parish assistants. There had been agitation against the abuses of the Spanish friars since 1860, but it was not until 1902, after a delegation to Madrid got a cold shoulder from the Papal Nuncio, that a group of Socialist-minded Philippine Catholics decided that the Pope was no longer their spiritual "father, but just a stepfather." A revolutionary, excommunicated priest named Gregorio Aglipay was proclaimed Supreme Bishop. Almost overnight, membership in the new church jumped to nearly...
...regulations of the U.S. Navy and of the U.S. Naval Academy reflect decades of service wisdom in facing up to all sorts of military situations. But the regulations have nothing explicit to say about what to do when a starling comes to roost on a second classman's shoulder in the middle of June Week ceremonies at Annapolis (see cut). That left the matter up to Drummer Peter F. H. Hughes of Chicago to work out for himself...