Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ectasy of mediocrity. Whatever the others did, I did... To survive we must become happy nothings." Hingham has to work and behave centrally, for this is the life of Centralism: "Everytime you wash your car it always rains, if that's the general story. Throw salt over your shoulder. Knock on wood...
When he discovered that his seventh-place players were spending their spare time playing the stock market, Casey called a clubhouse meeting. Looking furtively over his shoulder, he whispered that he Was going to give them a great tip on the market. "Buy Pennsylvania Railroad stock," he hissed. Then he roared into the snapper: "Because they're going to declare a dividend when you bums start getting shipped out of here...
Nasser does not look like a man with a chip on his shoulder. He carries 200 Ibs. with the lithe grace of a big, handsome All-America fullback. His wiry, close-cropped hair is greying at the temples and thinning just above the forehead, where there is a faint scar made by a police club. He has a big, slightly hooked nose and a close-trimmed black mustache, a row of regular, white teeth and a brilliant, easy smile. His eyes are piercing and brown, and he talks quietly, gently, and has never been known to raise his voice...
...gone through a course in which some of the ugliest Communist methods of handling prisoners are followed. Herded behind barbed wire for a 36-hour interrogation period, the "prisoners" are subjected to electrical shocks, crammed into an upright box where they can neither sit nor stand, forced to stand shoulder deep in water for hours of darkness, fed a mixture of raw spinach and uncooked spaghetti, made to stand naked before their captors, and to listen to slanderous talk about their wives...
...chip-on-the-shoulder tradition was shared by Thurgood's father, Will, a dining-car worker on the B. & O. and later steward of Baltimore clubs, including the Gibson Island club, a yachtsman's paradise with jellyfish for serpents. Will, light-skinned and blue-eyed, used to tell Thurgood and his brother Aubrey, "If anyone calls you nigger, you not only got my permission to fight him-you got my orders to fight him." Once, Thurgood followed orders. Delivery boy for a hat store, he was trying to board a trolley with a stack of hats so high...