Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the middle. In 1949 a doctor, after examining his vision, advised him to quit baseball. But Ryne persisted, finally licked his wildness with the help of Manager Lefty O'Doul at Vancouver in 1956. "He taught me to aim at the catcher's knee, at his shoulder, at his belt," says Duren. "To move it around, one ball high and away, the next low and inside. I tried and it worked." With Denver last year Duren pitched a no-hitter in his first start, had a 13-2 mark, walked only 33 men in 114 innings...
...Left Cairo staff college to fight in 1948 Palestine war. Wounded in the shoulder, he held out in "Faluja pocket" till Cairo stopped fighting. Bitterly convinced that the real enemy was the rotten regime back home, he organized his first Free Officers' secret meeting at Faluja...
...Chicago gave Evangelist Billy Graham a cold shoulder last week. After a poll on whether to sponsor a Graham crusade, the Church Federation of Greater Chicago reported that church bodies representing ; 338,000 members were in favor-but those representing 693,000 members stood opposed or uncommitted, mainly on the ground that mass meetings give an incomplete presentation of Protestantism. Decision : no invitation for Billy...
...rejected. The third incident has the Rev. Mr. Hartman (Donald Saddler) jaggedly convulsed before the vision of a woman dimly seen through a window. The fourth is a tautly controlled dance between mother (Ilona Murai) and son expressing in the pushing of a palm and the brush of a shoulder her mixed longing and desire to send him into the world...
...program is taking form in Washington. Even as fresh opposition to the foreign aid and reciprocal trade programs showed itself in Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the State Department was busy last week on a program that every businessman and Congressman could support. The aims: 1) get other countries to shoulder more of the development burden now borne by U.S. foreign aid; 2) shift from giveaway aid programs to revolving loans; 3) encourage private investment and sound fiscal and monetary policies in countries that now dissipate U.S. help by bad housekeeping...