Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharon Caughron got up and left in the company of Bernice Drewry, calling back over her shoulder that they were "going to paint the town." "Red?" asked Jan Blackwell. "We haven't picked the color yet," said Sharon...
Reagan's reply to all these concerns was to strike an attitude of poised calm, even when taking firm action. The President last week invoked his emergency powers to sell Saudi Arabia 400 shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles and to provide a fourth aerial tanker, a KC-10, that can refuel Saudi fighters in flight. The moves were intended to help the Saudis protect shipping from Iranian air assault in the Persian Gulf. Kuwait promptly made an unofficial request for Stingers; the U.S. suggested it turn to European suppliers...
Politically we certainly asked the wrong questions. A better world does not lie at the end of the road that begins at the administration building door out of which one carries a Dean over one's shoulder. Yet intellectually, autobiographically, we may have asked precisely the right questions. We asked about the role of revolution in politics, the role of force in history. We asked about the importance of action, of the individual in social change. These question, it turns out, are very productive. A serious response requires recourse to intellectual traditions which, though wholly ignored at Harvard...
...Economics concentrator from Dumont. N.J. battled a sprained ankle early in the pre-season, fought it off to play in the opener, then injured his shoulder in the second game. But he came back, and it was Azelby who nabbed two interceptions late in the Princeton contest to save that pivotal game...
...Loeb Mainstage, Warner was sparking anticipation, controversy, and eventually furious critical disapproval with a vast and intricate and blindingly tinselled version of Aeschylus's Agamemnon--a sort of high-tech extravaganza in which Clytaemnestra rode an electric wheelchair, the murdered king appeared as a scrawny kid in giant shoulder pads, and the Chorus donned shades and bopped to a syncopated beat...