Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game, the stands fall silent and candy butchers ignore customers to steal a look. Rocco Domenico Colavito, just turned 26, stirs excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like an oak, flexes his shoulder muscles by whipping the bat horizontally up and behind his head, crouches slightly, and fixes the pitcher with a steady stare from his dark brown eyes...
...mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from his job as Governor General, he was carried shoulder-high through Algiers by French colons in one of the wildest demonstrations in the city's history. Soustelle promised the crowd: "This is not farewell. I will return when Algeria needs...
...SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE, to be named Red-Eye, will be developed for Army and Marines by General Dynamics Corp.'s Gonvair division under $6,000,000 contract. New surface-to-air weapon looks like World War II bazooka, is electronically guided for use against low-flying planes...
...novel twist at the end of her first conversation with him: instead of making her whole concluding speech at once, she says the first part, exits nearly off stage, and then, thinking he needs a bit more peace of mind, turns to deliver a kind of over-the-shoulder afterthought, "Leave all the rest [pause...
...inflection): (1) "We fail?"; (2) "We fail!"; and (3) "We fail." Mrs. Siddons, history's most celebrated portrayer of the role, finally settled on the third; and Miss McKenna does the same. But this is the most inadmissiable solution. Lady Macbeth must not toss the words away with shoulder-shrugging resignation. She cannot allow her husband to believe that failure is even possible; she must thunder these words, or at least put them over with the intense force of incredulity...