Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About one hundred yards farther on, we came across an ambulance. I stopped and the soldiers got out. The man in the back didn't move. When I tried to open the door I noticed a neatly drilled hole. A bullet had entered his right shoulder, pierced his chest and then his heart. He must have died a few moments after being...
When assassins tried to kill Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah with a bomb in the border village of Kulungugu last month, they almost got their man. Though it was officially denied that he had been hurt, Osagyefo (Redeemer) was wounded in the right shoulder, spent a week in the hospital wrestling with a high fever and an even nastier set of suspicions...
...neck, along with the previous victims. The 16 bound victims were then shoved against a barbed-wire fence and machine guns opened fire. The doctor screamed and threw himself to the ground, bringing the men tied to him down on top of him. Two bullets ripped his right shoulder, another grazed his right hand; the men atop the heap were dead...
...Typewriters. As synchronized as a pair of cheerleaders, the two sisters interview together, write together, talk together. They also think together: one often finishes a sentence the other has begun. Bonnie, the better penman, takes notes, but back home they compose in concert, peeking over each other's shoulder, pecking out the week's advice. When pressed for time, they resort to twin typewriters, each girl doing her part. This month they are going to Houston to find out how the astronauts stay in such rosy shape. And in the fall they hope to start a television series...
...such a good athlete that she thought she was ready for the Los Angeles Athletic Club's swimming team. Coach Peter Daland told her to go home and wait until she was twelve. Next year she made the team. Daland worked long hours to strengthen her arm and shoulder muscles, get more power into her kick. In 1960, when she was just 14, Carolyn broke the American 1,500-meter record, placed second to Defending Champion Chris von Saltza in the 400-meter freestyle, and earned a trip to the Rome Olympics...