Word: elbowed
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...staid khaki pants worn by Harvard football players for generations have now gone the way of such venerable football lore as handlebar mustaches and leather elbow patches...
...radio star who is not much disturbed about the threat of television is Comedian Fred Allen. Last week, filling in for vacationing Columnist John Crosby of the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Allen struck some ambiguous blows in radio's defense, managing at the same time to get a few elbow-jabs and nose-rubs into radio's face. Sample Allen opinions of the "romp, revel and enlightening fare" that packs the average radio...
...interminable task of trying to wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...
...needle-sharp fangs out of her middle finger, pressing with all her strength against the cobra's locked jaws. When she had torn the snake loose and carefully returned it to its cage, she calmly instructed the photographer to apply tourniquets to her wrist and elbow told him where to find stimulants and needles. But the needles were rusty and the vials broke in the photographer's hand. "Take me to a hospital at once," she ordered. "This is serious...
...That Makes It Worse." What, thundered the noble lords last week, was the government thinking of? Was there a British constitution or wasn't there? The government's Herbert Morrison came over to the House of Lords for the debate. He sat on a step with his elbow on the throne seat, passing a fretful hand through his thinning hair. Lord Chief Justice Goddard declared Mr. Ede's action unconstitutional. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood leveled a stern, accusing finger at Lord Jowitt who, as Lord Chancellor, was Prime Minister Attlee's nominee in the House...