Word: shoulder
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...rueful close his vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising-of-the-moon balladmaking, will end without result because the English will not be dislodged...
These ideas recognize that people of color, whether they identify or not, are force-fed a racial identity by the larger American society, forced to shoulder the associated burdens and responsiblities; and that out of this force-feeding comes an experience very different from that of whites. Enforced on the easily-distinguished basis of skin color, this fundamental difference threatens to remain indefinitely, unlike the discrimination that faced European immigrants earlier this century. In general whites, regardless of where they come from and what their history has been, because they are white,can opt out of their ethnicities. People...
...keep track every day of all 45students [in my entryway]," she says. "I can't doa whole lot if the student doesn't tell me thereis a problem and you don't want to be Big Brotherhanging over everybody's shoulder...
...Monday, state and University officialsdeflected questions about compensation. Some saidthe federal government should shoulder the burden;Frederick M. Misilo Jr., the task force chair,called for further study of the question...
This is a tale of rats and men. First the House committee hearings on the effects of smoking saw a procession of tobacco-industry executives standing shoulder to shoulder, swearing up and down that their products are not addictive. Then, last week, the laboratory rats testified otherwise -- by way of two researchers, Victor DeNoble and Paul Mele. Before the committee, the duo outlined years of secretive addiction experiments done at the behest of Philip Morris in the 1980s, work that was later allegedly suppressed...