Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slipping Pig. Navigator Bruce Kulka unbuckled his seat and shoulder harnesses, scooted up from his seat in the nose to the crawlway, opened a hatch and squeezed into the floodlighted bomb bay. There the big bomb-SACmen call it a "pig"-hung from its single shackle. Cautiously, Kulka tried to slide a big steel pin through the shackle to hold the pig in case the electrical lock let go. The bomb began to wobble. Desperately, Kulka worked...
...predawn prowl of Algiers' casbah, a French military patrol opened fire on some shadowy figures moving in the half-light. When they reached the spot, the soldiers found a 22-year-old girl named Djamila Bouhired sprawled in the narrow street, with a bullet wound in the shoulder. In her possession were various F.L.N. documents linking her to Yacef Saadi, the rebel "Captain of Algiers," who had been terrorizing the city with a rash of bombs planted in cafes, milk bars, and litter baskets...
...morning I fainted. Later, I became delirious. Every time, while one of the paratroopers worked the machine, the others took notes." A month after the alleged tortures, a French doctor examined her and professed to find nothing wrong; in fact, he identified the bullet wounds in her shoulder as only "open fistulae due to tuberculosis...
Smaller Strobe Light. The first self-contained electronic photoflash unit was introduced by Minneapolis-Honeywell's Heiland division. Instead of the usual bulky power unit dangling from a photographer's shoulder, the 35-oz. "Futuramic Strobonar" attaches to any camera equipped with speedlight synchronization. is powered by three size D batteries or ordinary household current. Price...
...pelting rain as a special act of devotion to the Virgin Mary on the 100th anniversary of her apparition to little Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto at Lourdes. By 10 o'clock, some 50,000 people were massed within the encircling wings of the basilica, or jammed shoulder to shoulder on the surrounding hillsides...