Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music wells, and the actors turn, dip, twist and prance. The applause pounds on in martial time as, a-tatatatat, a-tatatatat, the music pours up from the pit and gilds the hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum major's spinning baton flashed in the sun, and the grass...
...Regretted, in a brisk reply to Nikita S. Khrushchev's letter of last month, Russia's cold shoulder of the slow negotiation sessions with Western ambassadors in Moscow on an agenda for a possible summit meeting, patiently pledged to keep on trying to find ways to get along with the Soviets...
Serpentine Ally. At Shiloh, according to newspaper accounts, the good captain "stood erect in front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well...
...frantically coiled himself up, the spinning tire struck him, laying bare one of his shoulder blades. Bleeding, scorched by flame and chilled by the prop wash, Bas Wie mercifully lost consciousness. For three hours his body stayed so firmly wedged within the struts that it did not fall out even when the big wheel went down again. When the crew found him "just hanging there," Bas Wie seemed close to death...
...know baseball best turned a collective cold shoulder on two of the fans' perennial favorites: Boston's Ted Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...