Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steel blade, sandwiched between two upright wooden shafts, is quietly carted into the prison's exercise yard before dawn. The convict is aroused at 5:30 and offered a cigarette and a glass of rum. Then, bound and blindfolded, he is strapped, face down, neck bared, to the shoulder-high plank. A switch trips and the heavy, razor-sharp blade falls...
Prize-winning author Skocpol said she was pleased with the decision, though she added the pressure on her to produce new scholarly work would increase with the knowledge that Bok was staring over her shoulder. Bok's announcement came after an exchange of letters with Skocpol, and the undisclosed recommendation of an ad hoc panel debating her fitness for tenure...
Reagan knew the confrontation was coming and so did his men, right to the flyers in the F-14s. It was not to be "a direct provocation," explained one of the architects for the maneuvers. But the U.S. "had placed a chip on its shoulder, and the Libyans could try to knock it off if they wished." Behind this bravado was the simple but passionate belief by Reagan that, at home and abroad, when the structures of civilization are threatened the President must respond quickly and decisively. Freedom of the seas was the principle at stake off Libya...
...books made fun of people's troubles. Win Berry's son John will receive no such mail. He lives almost entirely in his family. His preparation for life is largely symbolic; as a jogger and weight lifter, he has the strength and endurance to repel invaders and shoulder his relatives' burdens. Characteristically, he marries the most imaginatively troubled woman in the book, a rape victim who spends many angry years in a bear suit as a bouncer at a brothel...
...Just one more and that does me,' I said. And moved to the reeking cage of the Rare Spectacled Bears, who were hiding behind their drinking-and-dunking pool when I opened their cage. I had to shout at them to make them come out. They came shoulder to shoulder across the floor, heads lowered like whipped dogs. They turned circles through the destroyed Biergarten, running too close together and butting themselves into umbrellas and hissing monkeys...