Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Executives can build up their biceps when their secretaries aren't looking simply by sitting up straight, sliding their open palms against the underside of their desks, and pushing up for six seconds. They can reripple their arm, chest and shoulder muscles by giving six-second pushes of one fist into the other hand. Their wives can firm up their thighs by standing with feet spraddled widely and trying to pull their thighs toward each other with maximum tension for six seconds, three times...
...Sunday marine microbiologist; his brother, Prince Yoshi, is a cytologist; and his son, Prince Hiro, is a confirmed admirer of the elephants at the zoo. With science all around, Crown Prince Akihito himself is no slouch when it comes to ichthyology. He has just finished a treatise on the shoulder blades of the goby fish, and used his 30th birthday press conference to announce a tonic devised to restore the appetite of his wife, Princess Michiko, still ailing after a March abortion. The "particularly effective delicacy," said the prince, consists of strips of grilled eel laid over a bowl...
...virtuoso display of his handshaking techniques. Those techniques are really a modern marvel-Lyndon is equally adept at shaking two people's hands at the same time, or shaking one person's hand with both of his, or shaking a hand while patting an elbow or a shoulder, or using the handshake to hurry someone past him in the reception line. After viewing the performance on television, New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould quipped: "The President can only be described as the Y. A. Tittle of handshakers; he does not let go until the last moment...
...does have one advantage over defensive halfbacks who run the 100 in 9.5 sec.: "I know where I'm going-they don't." Daintily, he trotted out to the flank in his sneakers. The ball was snapped, and he ran straight up to Glass, dipped his right shoulder as if to cut toward the sideline, then whirled and streaked across the field-leaving Glass with his legs hopelessly crossed. Tittle threw-and for a long instant the ball seemed hopelessly out of reach. But no. At the last second, Gifford doubled over, stretched out his right hand...
...defendants, five in all, were charged with treason after Nkrumah was wounded in the shoulder by a bomb in an attempt on his life in August...