Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Later this week, Brian Cooper will at last get the chance to drive the company car. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a cause for worry, but Cooper has reason to be nervous. Hundreds of his co-workers and more than a thousand reporters will be looking over his shoulder--to say nothing of the 25 million people who are expected to tune in live on the World Wide...
...Cohen said he had to "draw a line." But that line seemed skewed in favor of a man with four stars on his shoulder and 32 years of service. The Pentagon chief and his aides spent much of last week splitting legal hairs to show why Ralston's transgression wasn't as severe as Flinn's. Whereas Flinn, the Air Force's first female B-52 pilot, lied about her affair and disobeyed an order to stop seeing her boyfriend, Ralston had his fling when the then colonel and his first wife were separated. Because Ralston and his love...
Moreover, Rich Linden became the first freshman ever to start at quarterback for Harvard. He took over for junior Jay Snowden--who was nursing a shoulder injury suffered against Holy Cross--and never let go of the reins...
...thread has been given to Tung Chee-hwa, a Hong Kong multimillionaire who lived for nine years in the U.S. and was handpicked by the communist bosses in Beijing to carry out their promise of a "high degree of autonomy" for the capitalist enclave. Looking over his shoulder, however, is an ardent spokesman for those who insist that Hong Kong can rule itself. Martin Lee stakes his claim to leadership on the voter's mandate to make Beijing live up to democratic...
...next morning I took one of my negatives of Louise, my seven-year-old sister, and with surgical tape attached it to my shoulder. I returned to the beach and burned the image onto my skin. And there it was, my father's lesson--the shadow of my sister on my shoulder...