Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each year approximately 100 students from below the line of Mason and Dixon enter the Harvard freshman class. They arrive in Cambridge as eager and awed as any. Some, of course, arrive with a chip on their shoulder and with a few choice words concerning Little Rock. These few have ample--indeed, abundant--opportunity to express their defense of segregation, Faubus, and States Rights, for they will find roommates equally eager to argue...
...buzzsaw voice rasped between the tarnished silver of a straggly mustache and the soiled afterthought of a goatee. The smutched, shoulder-length mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...
This crimson cold shoulder to Dixieland may have daunted or diverted Harvard dixie activity; but Mel Dorfman, Bowdoin grad and clarinet man, hurls a challenge of his own at collegiate non-concern. Remember jazz at Tulla's last fall, or Crimson Cafe Dixieland early this year? These were Dorfman's groups--the most recent phases of a three-year campaign for Harvard Square jazz. As Mel will say, "Since last fall things have really started to move...
Snap. In Fort Huachuca, Ariz., National Guard Sergeant Joseph J. Palacio dislocated his shoulder as he saluted an officer...
Milton lived through a repressed childhood, rebelling vainly under a luxuriance of shoulder-length curls, which his mother finally cut during his fifth year. The older brothers were impressed, in rotating succession, as Milton's nursemaids, a boring duty that Dwight relieved by rocking Milton's cradle with one foot while absorbed in a book. Earl, 19 months older than Milton, was held out of school for a year so that little Milton could enjoy his protective custody...