Word: elbowed
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...deluge had set in. It seemed unlikely that businesslike Manager Sewell could set the house in order again. His none-too-robust pitching staff had sprung a major leak: Bob Muncrief (12-7), out with elbow trouble. The team's only outstanding player, 23-year-old Shortstop Verne Stephens, led the League in runs batted in (91) and home runs (17), but not even the most hopeful St. Louisans thought Stephens alone could turn the tide...
...impatient with his slow note-taking. His left hand is not yet very handy with a pencil. And 21-year-old Marvin Niles, who is slow too, wishes the professor would remember that the German land mine which shredded and scarred his arm in Sicily left his elbow so sensitive that when it brushes against a desk he almost screams with the pain...
...those days of 100-degree heat and soaking humidity, the shirt-sleeved Republican crowd sat and fanned themselves apathetically with newspapers, panamas, 50? souvenir programs, hunted vainly for elbow room at an air-cooled bar, gasped uneasily all night on their stove-hot beds. But the heat was really only incidental; the main thing was that the Convention was phenomenally dull...
...their $86,210, Long Beachers get a repertory of good old-fashioned music. They also get the skilled elbow-waving of a veteran bandmaster named B. (for Benjamin) A. (for Albert) Rolfe, whose red face, wheezing voice and massive (230 Ib.) figure have become as indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke...
...noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted in: "The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks." The U.S. love of violence...