Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall avoid extremes. We shall neither withdraw from the power field nor federalize all electric power generators in the U.S. Instead, we shall continue to advance in a spirit of helpfulness to all localities, and in a spirit of cooperation with local citizens. When local enterprise can shoulder the burden, it will be encouraged and supported in doing so. But where local action cannot or should not fully meet the need, we shall have federal action...
WITH Hawthorne the exploration of Americanness, as something mysteriously different from any other national quality, is well under way . . . Its existence conditions the whole of American literature . . . The Englishman takes his Englishness for granted; the Frenchman does not constantly have to be looking over his shoulder to see if his Frenchness is still there. The difference is simple . . . being an American is not something to be inherited so much as something to be achieved. This is the complex fate; and the history of the United States has been such that for each succeeding generation it has meant a beginning again...
...while the opposition pitched righthanders against his righthanded teammates, tried every trick in the book to boost his average. In the last game against the Giants he was faced with an unexpected surprise: the Giants' sparkling southpaw Ace Johnny Antonelli. The Duke promptly came up with a sore shoulder and sat out the game. In the next game he was right back at his hard-hitting ways...
...Gene Calame took off in the option play. Circling behind the quarterback. Halfback Buddy Leake caught Calame's lateral without hitching his stride, raced a couple of steps and whipped a long forward pass downfield. On the Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes in the back of his head, Boydston snaked away from the only other Bear in reach and completed an 87-yd. touchdown...
...they make love to different people. Furthermore, the picture was produced by Collier Young, Ida's next-to-last husband and still her partner in Filmakers. Inc. This perhaps partly explains why Steve Cochran, who has never been married to Actress Lupino, keeps darting uneasy glances over his shoulder while he bounces her around on the studio couch...