Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There one night last week they found their man. The carabinieri opened fire. Giuliano fled, firing over his shoulder as he went. For 15 minutes the chase led on through labyrinths of twisted alleys and courtyards. Captain Antonio Perenze, leader of the carabinieri, hid in a doorway. A stalking figure crept up, machine gun set. Perenze blasted pointblank. The figure whirled, tottered and fell face down, a dark red splotch welling up under his white shirt...
Then he sat down to explain why he was abandoning all claim to the most powerful governorship in the U.S. at an age (48) when most politicos are just hitting their stride. First, his blood pressure was low from fatigue, and the bursitis in his right shoulder had reduced his usual eight-hour nightly sleep to two or three. Then there was money: after taxes on his $25,000 governor's salary, he had hardly enough to support the family and put his two sons (ages: 14 and 17) through college. He had been offered the presidency...
...Oslo, a motorist who is overly gay when he leaves the bar is liable to be tapped on the shoulder by a policeman and asked down to the police station. Norwegian law provides that the police may give any driver a blood test if they have "fair reason" to suspect that he has had too much akevitt-i.e., more than a concentration of five-tenths of a milligram of alcohol per cubic centimeter in the blood. * Recently, a Norwegian driver who had had a few drinks but wanted to move his car a few feet into a better parking...
...Modern Times. 2. Shoulder Arms. 3. City Lights. 4. The Great Dictator. 5. Monsieur Verdoux...
Soon, when even greater events were toward, Massachusetts sent John Adams as a representative to the Continental Congresses. There Adams put his thick shoulder to the wheel, and his powerful legal intelligence, no longer like roiled water but clear and cold as a New England winter night, to the problems of building a nation. And there, with the Declaration of Independence rammed through the opposition (after a powerful summation of the case for it by Lawyer Adams), Author Bowen leaves her common-sense hero to the cabbage he was to cultivate for the rest of his life-the United States...