Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...
...German leaders, understandably, were ducking responsibility without full authority. The Germans suggested several verbal changes: for "government" they wanted to substitute "economic and administrative area"; for the "constitution" to be drafted in September they suggested "organizational statute." But, said Social Democratic Spokesman Erich Ollenhauer: "We are going ahead shoulder to shoulder with the task of strengthening not only Germany but all democratic Europe...
...Powerful. What if Pijade had not wanted to write that? Over his shoulder looks Alexander Rankovic, head of Tito's OZNA, considered by many as the most efficient secret police force in the world. The OZNA was created Jan. 11, 1946. Rankovic spent January, February and March of that year in Moscow learning his business from Lavrenty Beria, head of the Soviet secret police, on which the OZNA is modeled...
...eastern U.S. campuses and in better-class communities, "Soul Surgeon" Frank Buchman's Groupers organized house parties for tennis, tea, and friendly arm-on-shoulder proselytizing. Groupers were encouraged to "get square with God" by "sharing" their sins in public confessions to their fellow members-a practice which led some outsiders to accuse Groupers of an undue interest in sex. No creed or doctrine was necessary. "Absolute Honesty, Absolute Purity, Absolute Unselfishness and Absolute Love" were the Buchmanite requirements, plus regular "quiet times" for listening...
Time changeth all things. But one boil that will never burst was summed up in the cry of Miss Lois Salsgate, a petite Middlebury alumns. "Every Harvard man I've seen," she groaned, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and a posture to match...