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Word: shoulder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki. "His title was managing director, but he was just another middle-class manager forced to shoulder heavy responsibility without being given authority to make a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Death of a Manager | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye or get a comforting arm around the shoulder. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience. It is the talk show as group-therapy session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah Winfrey: Lady with a Calling | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Sometimes Josh imagines what being an adult will be like. "I will have to really look after myself and not have somebody looking over my shoulder to be sure I'm doing the right thing," he says. "And I'll have to teach my kids the things I've been taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: Josh, Belmont | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...tearin' the skin off, and we found where I had shot it real close to the tail where it went through the backbone and came out the other side. And Dad says, 'If you goin' to shoot a deer, you got to shoot it up around the shoulder or neck.' I say, 'I know.' You see, it was really Dad's deer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: David, West Virginia | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Katie is an energetic, bubbly girl with sunny, shoulder-length blond hair and blue eyes that shine from behind jet-black eyelashes. Last year she wrote and illustrated a book (one copy in circulation so far) with the tongue- twisting title Xavier Xanax Excitedly Xeroxes X-Mas Xylophones and X-Rays in Xanadu. It is subtitled A World Alphabet Book, and all 26 letters receive similar treatment. In a blurb about the author, she writes, "Katie Davis lives in Seattle, Washington, in a house of five. And whenever she gets lonely she just goes off to play with her puppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: Katie, Seattle | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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