Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House by Press Secretary James Hagerty and Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster, ready to pass the word to Ike. "T minus ten," said Walsh. "Clear sky on launching complex . . . Minitrack clear." Pete Aurand took a horseshoe from a paper sack, spit on it, tossed it over his shoulder...
...Several nights ago I dreamed that the good Lord touched me on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry, you'll be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. What's more, you'll be elected.' I told Stu Symington about my dream. 'Funny thing,' said Stu, 'I had exactly the same dream about myself.' We both told our dreams to Lyndon Johnson. Said Lyndon: 'That's funny-for the life of me I can't remember tapping either of you boys...
...Shoulder to shoulder in Denver's Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers...
Perched high above the jungle grass aboard an elephant, U.S. Ambassador to India Ellsworth Bunker took five quick shots at a moving target, neatly bagged his first quarry: a prince-sized (12 ft. 10 in. long, 5 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder) Indian bull bison. Warily clutching his gun, Nimrod Bunker posed for the camera with his solemn host, the Maharajah of Mysore, and the carcass, which was sent to a taxidermist for mounting...
...combs-which make effective face-slashers with the teeth broken out-may be banned next). One student, 15-year-old Charles McDougle, was out of line, refused to obey Teacher Edward Carpenter's command to get back in. Then Carpenter put his hand on McDou-gle's shoulder, in what Principal Irving Boroff described later as "a brotherly, positive way." Student McDougle cried, "Nobody touches my clothes!", shoved Carpenter a little, swore a bit, then ran out of the school to stand bewildered on a street corner. Someone called the cops...