Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Education conference Sunday. Terrell H. Bell, secretary of Education, talked about New Federalism in the field of learning. The message, as it has been with public welfare, civil rights and environmentalism, was that government at the national level had taken on too much, and that states must now shoulder a greater burden...
Propp concluded that companies doing nuclear related work do shoulder some blame for the arms race, partly because of what he termed their "energetic lobbying" for weapons contracts...
...means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge of the rackets, looking over his shoulder for the cops and the robbers. His brother Paul is harder to place; neither we nor anyone else knows where he is going. Though most of the plot concerns him and his failures, it flip-flops pointlessly, meandering as unsympathetically as the character himself "Don't downgrade yourself," his mother...
...iron determination in the 800 when faced with a neck and-neck race with teammate Grace de-Fries in the final stretch of the event. Straining with every available ounce of remaining strength, Stricker moved barely ahead of de-Fries-who had worked her way up to Stricker's shoulder-to eke out a victory by one-tenth of a second...
Wright does tend sometimes to toss over his shoulder the wealth of material he sees. In "Old Bud," he writes, "His unbelievable Adam's apple purpled and honed like the burl on the root of a white oak, and he sang his God Damns in despair." Now you see it, now you' don't--the white oak disappears, and the central character. Old Bud, who does has the potential to run wild and become larger than the poem, twists into another image. In cases like these, the prose poem proves even more confining for Wright than the traditional form; everything...