Word: shoulder
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Beckford stayed on the shoulder of Villanova's Bridig Leddy until the last lap of the mile run, when she burst ahead to win in 4:32.3, a new national collegiate indoor record. Beckford's blistering pace knocked more than 16 seconds off the old Eastern record and more than 12 seconds off the Harvard facility record. Beckford now stands as the fourth fastest indoor miler in the world behind American stars Mary Decker and Francie Larrieu and Russian racer Zmira Zatseva...
...original residents remain, tending the livestock and carrying on the war against the Ethiopians and their Cuban and Soviet allies. "This is a town of warriors," said a grim-faced herdsman who, like almost every other man in town, had an AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder. "If I had the power, I would wipe the Ethiopians off the face of the earth...
...prolonged or repeated exposure to intense heat can cause permanent web-patterned skin discolorations, ranging in shade from pink to brown. (Habitual use of very hot water bottles and heating pads can lead to the same problem.) Dr. Stephen Stone of Springfield, Ill., had one patient whose upper back, shoulder to shoulder, was crisscrossed by marks resulting from sitting too near a wood-burning stove. His advice: "Stay a reasonable distance away. If the heat is intense enough to cause discomfort, that is too close." He further warns that ordinary apparel offers little protection; the heat will penetrate through cloth...
Every court must have a king. Jerome Robbins is the monarch of West Side Story. Beyond that, he is the Jove of theater choreography. His dances are thunder bolts of invention, and his dancers are the messengers of his precise, uncompromising will. From the faintest twitch of a shoulder to hurricane tides of mass action, he is the master of the rhetoric of bodily motion. He can turn his dancers into airborne balletic Ariels who touch the ground merely to skip skyward again...
...also granted custody of one of the burly "chorus girls" who surrounded her-a send-up substitute for the kid she lost to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer. "I hope my son never turns out like this," cracked Streep good-naturedly, stroking the Harvard lad's muscled shoulder...