Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tokyo's largesse is to counter U.S. complaints that Japan does not shoulder its fair share of international obligations. Japanese aid in 1986 amounted to 0.29% of gross national product, less than the OECD average of 0.35% but ahead of the 0.23% rate for the U.S. But while the U.S. sinks 6% of GNP into defense spending, much of which goes to protecting allies and international sea lanes, Japan devotes only...
...suddenly he was running. "After all the times we talked," he said ruefully, throwing his slight yet muscular arm around my shoulder. Already Eugene McCarthy, with much less to risk, had had the courage to risk it. He had exposed Johnson's soft underbelly, and now Kennedy was motioning to him to stand aside. Kennedy, who had refused to fracture the party, had split the antiwar movement. There was grumbling across the land and throughout the hastily chartered campaign plane...
...together, it's fantastic!" In a traveling circus, a pretty trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) chafes at the gaudy "chicken wings" she must wear in her act. As she stares in her mirror and considers the pleasures men take in looking at her, the invisible Damiel caresses her shoulder...
Dreaming of next season, 4680 hours away, when Ciavaglia and Donato--with one year of collegiate hockey play under their shoulder pads--will return to Bright Center. Dreaming of Zambonis when they should be thinking about the seventh inning stretch...
Forget about Marguerite Higgins, Mary Welsh Hemingway or the shoulder-padded heroines whom Rosalind Russell used to play in the movies. Those female legends of the '30s and '40s may have been superwomen, but consider the perfections of Claudia Hampton, war correspondent, popular historian, prized sexual partner to many men. (Claudia is also a terrible mother, but that seems to go with the territory...