Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
...similar critique of prevailing styles Miss Lois Salsgate, Middlebury alumna, confessed years of proximity to the University had somewhat inured her to the Crimson approach. "Every Harvard man I've seen," declared Miss Salsgate, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and the posture to match...
Aping the theorists' own gibble-gabble, Stabler said that the rise "disposed of surmises that [it] is merely a secondary move within a primary swing after testing double tops on a northeast course follow ing raising of a right shoulder in a southwest storm...
...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...
...barnlike Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...