Word: shoulder
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...touches the mattress, her eyes fly open and tears well up in them. She cries, she keens, she wails and howls. She has no middle range; she is louder than anyone else whom I know personally. She cannot be ignored. And so I sling the spit rag over my shoulder and resume walking the floor, a foot soldier in the old campaign, exhausted, milk stained, borderline paranoid, poorly informed, a man nobody would ever hire to look after a six-week-old infant...
...Sylvester stated in his letter (Hall of Famers Confused, Apr. 6), that in 1947 Pee Wee Reese went over to second to put his arm around Jackie Robinson's shoulder. Robinson played all of his 151 games at first base that year, switching back to second only...
...also a great hitter, he is perhaps more famous for being Jackie Robinson's friend and fellow infielder during the Dodgers' golden years. In 1947, when a crowd started booing baseball's first black player, Reese went over to second base and put his arm around Robinson's shoulder. That gesture quieted the crowd and helped Robinson gain acceptance. TOM SYLVESTER '00 April...
After an hour or so in the dimly lit room, I'm gradually surrounded by people who are slowly losing their sense of balance with each drink they have. This radically disregulates my own equilibrium, because my reference points for approximate "shoulder level" are now undulating wildly. Slowly, I begin to stagger along, bumping into people with impunity, reveling in the knowledge that at this point into the night, they probably don't give a damn either...
...Rome the statement's authors explained that they wrote for a church whose large non-European realms should not have to shoulder too much Holocaust guilt. They believe We Remember's good bold strokes will be remembered long after its disputed details. Even the report's critics obviously wanted to like it. American Jewish Congress official Phil Baum, who released a statement predicting that the historical record will eventually show a "deliberate failure of the church generally to respond" to the Shoah, adds on the phone, "We are not disparaging of the Pope's efforts to live with this responsibility...