Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cleats; a real blue-and-yellow uniform; and Richie Rivera, the meanest pitcher in our league. While everyone else was 10 or 11 years old, Richie was 12 and very big for his age. Once, he was so mad at himself that he hit a batter in the shoulder with a fastball so he could leave the game. That batter...
...vice, creativity and crass extravagance. It has been used in rosary beads, pistol grips, lutes, dice, scepters, toothpicks, prayer wheels, fly whisks, mah-jongg tiles and chopsticks. In the past century, traders greedy for ivory attacked and burned African villages. Natives were sold into slavery and forced to shoulder the tusks out of the interior...
...offering support for Erich Honecker, East Germany's aged and embattled leader. Wading into a crowd with characteristic aplomb, the Soviet visitor urged patience. "Don't panic. Don't get depressed. We'll go on fighting together for socialism." He made a strong show of solidarity with Honecker, standing shoulder to shoulder with him as they reviewed a torchlight parade. When he alluded to the current crisis in a televised address, Gorbachev took pains to be circumspect. "We know our German friends well," he said. "We know their ability to think creatively, to learn from life and to make changes...
Sidelined:Senior Mark Bianchi, the team's top receiver, joined the Crimson's growing list of injured players when he dislocated his finger Saturday. Bianchi is also suffering from a sore left shoulder...
...progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull. "So they try hard to make a field look nice on the surface. The result is that tillages may be done twelve times instead of once, and seeds are often planted when the soil...