Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drafted a speech that was considerably stronger than the President's own let's-keep-our-shirts-on position. Said Nixon, in effect, "Let's roll up our sleeves," and thereby he set the Administration on a realistic course between the hand-wringers and the shoulder-shruggers...
...passing cyclist tossed a grenade into the Restaurant de 1'Avenir; another cyclist threw a grenade into a crowd of shoppers a few blocks away. At the Alberti Bar, a khaki-clad man stepped from a black car, slipped a leather-strapped machine gun from his shoulder, and me thodically began pumping bullets into the customers. On Avenue Kleber, an elegantly dressed man unlimbered a machine gun and raked customers and passers-by on the terrace of the Cafe de Palmarium. Total casualties in Sidi-bel-Abbes' 30 minutes of terror: eight dead, 17 wounded...
...both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped to Hollywood by a talent scout. (MGM, which likes Johanna-Anna in her off-shoulder sari, first hedged, then admitted her identity.) Said Papa O'Callaghan huffily: "She never mentioned Mr. Brando in her letters...
...gold mine find of the fullback combination of Chris Provensen, a starter last year, and Lanny Keyes, up from last year's freshman squad, will stand today without any reserve strength behind them. Goalie Jim Perkins entertains both an injured shoulder and the flu in his room, so the nets will be guarded by sophomore goalie Tom Bagnoli...
...Milwaukee's County Stadium, but in front of any TV set in the land. NBC whisked the home spectator all over the field almost as intimately as the ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly...