Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stupor mundi," Finley said. "He lived very thoroughly the life of a professional scholar. He was not very active in the House, but he loved it. He got to know some of the undergraduates and sometimes he would come up behind one, tap him on the shoulder and quote some unintelligible Latin, or English which sounded like Latin...
...come to be perched on the brink of disaster." He refuses to let Americans "be happy" with the bland idea that no one need be blamed for the Civil War. It was caused, he says, by the extremism of a South that "always seems to have looked over its shoulder-frequently seeing what was not there." His just published The Emancipation Proclamation (Doubleday; $3.50) hopefully suggests that "perhaps" Lincoln's manifesto-100 years old last week-will eventually "give real meaning and purpose to the Declaration of Independence...
Back from Nassau, the Prime Minister beamed that Britain now had a weapon that "will last a generation. The terms are very good." Many other Britons were not so sure. Though the government will shoulder none of the $800 million development cost of Polaris, it has already poured $28 million into Skybolt and will have to spend perhaps $1billion more for a fleet of missile-packing submarines. At best, the British will not be able to design, build and prove its nuclear fleet before 1970, three years after Britain's bomber force has presumably become obsolete...
...leave to his old associates. The warmest and most unexpected leavetaking came from Charles de Gaulle, whose attitude to NATO has not been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...
...rare capacity to persuade his associates to express opinions contrary to his own." Adds Love of his own relationship with Townsend: "Let's say Townsend has an uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle has invested $20 million of the family's money in his nephew's business." Love, so far, has found little need for uncle to second-guess nephew...