Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morley and Kendall, being English, seem to take the grammar for granted; but Actor Taylor, a man who has earned an impressive hauberk stoop without ever changing his Pomona accent, keeps glancing uneasily over his shoulder as he mumbles all the great big three-syllable words...
Perhaps the most apparent are injuries to important Indian offensive personnel. The Green air attack may be seriously deflated if Pascoc has not recovered from a shoulder injury, and the meagre ground attack may be even further diminished if halfback Jack Nicolette does not return to the lineup after suffering a bad bruise...
...would not have to compete with the splendor of the floodlit Acropolis and Parthenon. He had his wish. A downpour washed the first concert indoors-not before King and Cabinet Ministers were consulted on the crisis. The switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor. (He finally made it by hitching a ride on a truck.) King Paul, Queen Frederika and their two oldest children applauded the maestro...
Whenever Bradley Smith checked the pins on his map and made this sort of announcement, his family knew it was time for him to shoulder his camera and set off on another expedition into the Northwest...
...Government, "after about the third highball, listen to the businessman tell what rascals-congenital nitwits-they are in Washington. Tap that man on the shoulder" to come down to Washington, and "immediately you find you are in the presence of the indispensable man whose presence at his company is essential to its preservation...