Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior captain Elijah White and classmates Jon Gibbons, Ben Hochberg and Chris Dewing figure strongly in the seat racing. Junior Alex Blake may be the final piece in the heavyweight puzzle, while sophomores Mike Linse, Doug Goodman and Charles Ruch are intent on making Blake check his shoulder...
Stephen A. Mitchell, Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore, and current chair of the Committee on Folklore & Mythology, takes a similar approach. "When I spill salt, I throw it over my shoulder," he remarks, pantomiming the motion. Mitchell says he learned this superstition from watching his parents but is not bothered that none of his children observe it. seems a breach of table manners...
Which is to be distinguished from the coffee bar. Life on Seinfeld may be laid back, but its characters always seem to have someplace to go. In Friends the crowd is always around to share their latest personal woes or offer a shoulder to cry on. But who would want advice from these dysfunctional morons, with their obsessive pop-culture references? "Guess what?" says Rachel, bursting in with good news. Cracks Chandler: "The fifth dentist caved, and now they're all recommending Trident...
...cuts the Republicans propose would allow children to slip through the cracks and go hungry. It doesn't take much thought to realize that eating well directly correlates with academic performance and alertness. Nor does it take much compassion to understand that making children shoulder the brunt of cuts borders on the inhumane. It simply doesn't make sense to cut a program that so clearly affects the future of the nation...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole, disabled from war wounds to his right shoulder and arm, has protested. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II) says putting F.D.R. in a wheelchair "would be one of the most powerful parts of the memorial...