Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boils coffee with the last drops of water from a gourd and sweetens it with a piece of sugarcane. Her daughter Melina, 6, places the gourd on her head and begins a morning-long walk to a well. Mercius, meanwhile, picks up his wooden hoe, balances it on his shoulder and scuttles down the mountainside to till a field of millet for a gros neg, a landowning peasant. If he is lucky, he will earn 60 cents for his day's work...
Dukakis, with his weighty, even slightly oppressive air of self-possession and the small eyes that give his large head a somehow sealed look, like a tank turret even without his famous tank, applauded in an odd slow motion and dipped his left shoulder and gave a slow-motion thumbs-up sign, as if to say, "Way to go, Big Guy!" Then he came forward and started to tell the crowd about John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and about how "we can do better" and how 1960 has rolled round again. History, says Dukakis, repeats itself. And at least some...
...Tigers (3-2, 2-1) will be trying to knock a chip off its own shoulder--put there by Columbia when the Lions turned the Tigers into The Victim to end their 44-game losing streak...
Morton is tied for the team lead in touchdowns with two. And after what he admits was an off year last year--he suffered from a shoulder injury the entire season--he is back is form...
...Harry's Bar on the corner of Beach and Essex Streets, a group of bearded guys wearing flannel shirts sit around a circular bar listening to Motown from the Jukebox. One of them gets up, taps somebody on the shoulder and says, "Hey bud, you got a problem...