Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police state which in the past few months has lost most of its police, and the result is an increase in both freedom and anarchy. People no longer whisper in Poland, or try to convey a world of meaning with their eyes, and there are fewer darted over-the-shoulder glances before opening a conversation. But the country's production has never been lower (except in wartime), and the harvest never looked worse. Farmers accustomed to work under the eye of the U.B. (security police) are leaving much of the potato and sugar-beet crop in ground this winter...
Tory backbenchers-both the moderates and the Suez militants-were not satisfied with the government's equivocating position. That night a committee comprising all Tory backbenchers confronted Butler and Macmillan. Under the assault, the two rival leaders stood shoulder to shoulder. Butler spoke first: Britain would work with the U.N.. but it would not withdraw from Port Said until it was satisfied. Then Macmillan rose, gave an impassioned speech. He ran over the tragedies that would ensue if the Tory Party split and the government fell. The U.N. would collapse, he declared; Britain would be isolated from...
...looking for Frenchmen to kill. In Indo-China, snipers' bullets ripped his uniform without touching him. In Algeria, he was often as much as five hours ahead of advancing French troops. In Moscow, he stepped up to a high-ranking Soviet officer in the street, plucked off his shoulder-boards and said "Thanks, I'll keep these as souvenirs...
...dominant theme of the new conservatism is that businessmen and corporations must shoulder a host of new re ponsibilities, must judge their actions, not only from the standpoint of profit and loss or the balance sheet, but of profit and loss to the community. "Business today," says U.S. Chamber of Commerce President John S. Coleman, "views its own work through the eyes of the community and looks to the total welfare in terms of the long pull. Instead of resisting change, the new conservatism plays a creative role in directing it." Thus the progress of the corporation is inextricably linked...
...those and more. Last week the principal reason for Dwight Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles was.to lend a needed helping hand to Kuchel's re-election campaign. Yet, after Ike landed, Nice Guy Kuchel was so nice that he let another Republican, ebullient, shoulder-thumping Governor Goodwin J. Knight, elbow him out of the limelight...