Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard the crash too late. Two lengthy pipes used as scenery ballast fell to the stage, striking the dancer. Dr. Max Cohen, 42, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine, who had been sitting front row center, treated her for a fractured shoulder blade and a 3½-in. gash across the scalp. "She is in some ways fortunate to have survived," says Cohen. "It could easily have been more serious." Makarova will probably require two months or more of recuperation before she can dance again...
...filed for divorce, declaring that there had been an "irretrievable breakdown" of their 24-year marriage. At one point during the brief hearing in Barnstable, Mass, (where they both stillvote), Joan appeared to be near tears, according to Court Clerk Robert Farrell, but "Ted put his hand on her shoulder, and she seemed to regain her composure." Under the terms of what Joan called a "very generous" agreement, she will get alimony, child support, a lump-sum cash settlement, their apartment on Boston's Beacon Street and their Hyannis Port home. They will share legal custody of Patrick...
...stepped down to where we were anyway. He was wearing a lumber-jack shirt and pointy boots. "I believe we haven't met," he said, calmly dusting his hands off before clapping us each on a shoulder. "Lenny here is deceiving you a bit. That's no Death's Angels hat he's wearing--he's my newest lab assistant Sometimes called...
...drinkers also completed six other tests hourly: walking a white line with their hands held at shoulder level, reading tongue twisters over a public-address system, catching a tennis ball on cue, remembering a four-digit number and reciting it backwards, testing handwriting by writing "Without a doubt I can definitely drink and drive" and making a trip through a computer-game simulation of night driving...
...Yuri Andropov happens to glance over his shoulder, he will see a dozen or so men who thought they too had a shot...