Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shopping list drawn up by the Saudis and the Pentagon. Out went the purchase of twelve Black Hawk helicopters, "enhancement kits" to upgrade 60 F-15 fighter planes, and about a dozen new F-15s. The Administration did accede, however, to the Saudis' $354 million offer to buy 800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft Stinger missiles, 1,650 air-to- air Sidewinders and 100 antiship Harpoons. The scaled-down deal seemed safe enough, since Congress had approved the sale of all three types of missiles to the desert kingdom in the past...
This is the one that if an oarsman wins, he stands on the dock sipping champagne, as up to fifteen competitors who just weren't as fast heap their racing shirts on his shoulder. You even get a gold medal...
...take it apart. The drill, for 16,000 miles and 20 states, is rise before dawn, drive to the next town, set up, perform, usually at 2 p.m. and again at 8, collapse the tent, sleep, get up, load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest-level pay is $75 a week. Seventy-five, incidentally, is what the butt of the ancient joke, the kid who tidies after the elephants, receives...
...adrenaline," recalls the Ohio-born right-hander, who rared back and got the two more Ks, to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1 and, more important, to become the first player to record 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game. Clemens, who eight months ago had arthroscopic shoulder surgery, did it with a 97-m.p.h. fast ball and no walks. The old mark of 19 was jointly held by Nolan Ryan (1974), Tom Seaver (1970), Steve Carlton (1969) and Charlie Sweeney (1884). "Personally, it hasn't quite hit me yet," says Clemens, 23, who is apparently slower than the public...
After the Crimson fell behind in the first inning, 1-0, starter Jim Chenevey left the game with a sore shoulder. Ed Toland came on in relief and proceeded to allow just two hits over three shutout innings...