Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cooper, in fact, spent most of her Harvard tennis career in rehabilitation. She battled back from shoulder and back injuries for her first three years here. And just this year the Eliot senior completed her last--and first--spring season as a contributing member of her team...
...always preparing to shoulder that burden. She could read at three. Her mother was a devout Christian who taught her girls to emulate Jesus. But it was her father -- a dedicated doctor who never refused a call, an unusually enlightened man who preached women's equality, a socialist and a founder of the P.L.O. -- who profoundly defined her outlook. "Be daring," he told Hanan, "in the pursuit of the right." He made his children learn English from babyhood. Early on, he gave Hanan a copy of Nehru's diary, and she remembers the impact to this day: "I discovered...
...houses faced the road, not south. Instead of turning a cold shoulder to winter winds, the north side had windows to admit light and a view. The 20th century brought cheap oil and labor-saving furnaces, and Americans neglected energy conservation until the 1973 oil embargo reawakened interest in some old fashioned ideas...
...shopping spree in Afghanistan. Governments around the world are worried, particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to the Central Asian republics that might become targets of more powerful weapons. Iran has deployed two delegations to Kabul, offering to pay generously for American-made Stinger missiles -- the shoulder-mounted rockets can shoot down helicopters and low-flying aircraft. With thousands of Stingers now lying unused in Afghanistan, some are bound to end up in the wrong hands. Says an intelligence operative: "Stingers are by far the greatest and most immediate threat from terrorism...
...shoulder injury has prevented Isaak from playing at his best this year, but he should be at full strenght four the tournament...