Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unshaven soldier lies back on his pillow and exercises his good right arm. Every so often he twitches his left shoulder too, to exercise it, but where his left arm should be there is a white bandaged pouch like a hornets' nest taped to his body. This foreign legionnaire's left arm was amputated on the battlefield at Dienbienphu...
...French battalion commander falls. At dawn, De Castries thrusts tanks and a reserve Foreign Legion battalion toward the shrouded hill. Red bazookas stop the tanks but do not stop the legion. "Some Viets were dug in, so we cleaned them out," says a legion officer. "There were Viets everywhere, shoulder to shoulder. A Viet shot me. I fired my pistol at the Viet. He was dead, not me. Another Viet tried to bayonet one of my men. My man knocked the bayonet aside, then he hit the Viet with his fist. He knocked him down. Then he dropped a grenade...
...Moslems (no Hindu will do this work because of religious scruples) stuffed the monkeys into bamboo cages and carried them on shoulder poles into Lucknow. The train hauled them 260 miles to New Delhi. There, 1,000 specimens carefully chosen for health and size (4 to 8 Ibs. apiece) were collected. Then a four-engine transport flew them, with a full-time attendant to feed and water them three times a day, the 4,000 miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them...
...Shoulder to Shoulder. Harvester was careful not to ram nondiscrimination down Southern throats without warning. Scouts were sent to each city well in advance to place newspaper ads explaining company policy, to talk to civic groups and city officials. When the time came to hire, interviewers were on hand to explain exactly what the company meant. "Every white applicant," says a Harvester official, "was very clearly told that we did not discriminate and that he might find himself working beside a Negro. If he didn't like it, then it was no place for him to come to work...
...Negroes worked shoulder to shoulder with whites. When local laws allowed, they used the same dining rooms, the same drinking fountains and locker rooms. Harvester expected some trouble and was ready when it came. When a lone Negro showed up among a group of white welders in Memphis, the whites stalked off the job. Backed by the U.A.W.C.I.O., Harvester simply told them to get back to work or be fired. They went back. Gradually, white workers began to accept the idea of Negroes on the production line. Said one white foundry worker: "They've got to make a living...