Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...triumphal return in June 1979. His first homecoming had been spontaneously jubilant, as Poles in the millions turned out to greet a favorite son who had left for Rome eight months before as a Cardinal and come back as the first Polish Pope in history. The experience of standing shoulder to shoulder in quiet defiance of the country's Communist rulers had helped prepare the way for Solidarity's rise...
...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...Island, N.Y., in 1974. She charged that the motel-room lock was faulty; a jury awarded her $2.5 million in damages. Some recent decisions also involve whopping sums, and somewhat unlikely defendants. In California, a drunken driver plowed into the rear end of a station wagon parked on the shoulder of a freeway; the wagon had been left without lights by a police officer who was arresting its driver. The passengers riding with the drunk sued him and also the state, which had to ante up $2 million in damages. In 1978 a student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...dollars of damage and the loss of 16 homes in Utah and in western Nevada, where a mucky avalanche off aptly named Slide Mountain caused the death of one man, the Rev. Joseph Valenzuela. Said one of Valenzuela's parishioners, Tim Miller, who survived with a separated shoulder and cracked ribs: "I served quite a few months in Viet Nam, and I'd rather do that than go through something like this again...
...improve race relations by making Black students feel comfortable and accepted at the College. As the situation stands now, it is not difficult for a Black student to believe white acquaintances who "jokingly" say. "You got in because you're Black." The University appears to turn a cold shoulder to the vast majority issues save declining minority applications. Unintentionally, official interest in minority students, specifically Blacks seems to end at the admissions office, and hostility festers...