Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record of congressional achievement this session, he would continue in his conviction that the ground rules specify separate functions for the branches, that the executive should not attempt to browbeat the legislative. And if his tactics, when the capital season ended, lost a pennant, he was unapologetically ready to shoulder the blame...
...every other field-newsmen pride themselves, they are usually rewarded with heavy readership. The Philadelphia Bulletin's Financial Editor J. (for Joseph) A. Livingston, whose syndicated, thrice-weekly column is carried by some 60 other dailies, attracts a broad cross section of readers with straight-from-the-shoulder reporting that acknowledges no sacred cows. Leslie Gould, daily columnist (50 papers) and financial editor for Hearst's New York Journal-American, writes about his subject as if he were covering the police beat, breaks some crockery but also breaks frequent exposés of crooked stock promoters and unscrupulous...
...heat at Hassi Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...
...stocky half-Indian named Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, snapped his heels together at attention, slapped his rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once...
...first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story of a Cheat). In his acting, he epitomized the wry, shoulder-shrugging French bon vivant, but bitterly offended countrymen by continuing to act and write under the Nazi occupation ("I didn't want Paris to die . . ."), was once (1948) kidnaped by former resistance fighters in Lyon, forced to stand at silent attention for one minute before a memorial to martyred war heroes...