Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created the "Syrian twitch"-a quick, nervous glance over the shoulder. Although Syrian prisons hold fewer than 500 "subversives"-many of them saboteurs sent in by Nasser-Syrians can no longer be jailed for more than 48 hours without formal arraignment. A degree of press freedom has been granted, and the politics-loving Syrians are now entertained with three newly licensed opposition...
Some manufacturers are already talking of a harness for adults too-an arrangement of shoulder straps similar to those worn by aircraft pilots. Even with only a safety belt, the human body can briefly withstand a force equivalent to 60 times that of gravity...
...living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain towns have changed little in the last century. Garbage flows through an open gutter cut in the middle of narrow streets; hawk-nosed men sip Turkish coffee in dim cafés while their women shoulder heavy loads of wood and barrels of scarce water. Along with the traditional poverty are Communist posters plugging Dictator Enver Hoxha's slogan: "Build socialism with a pickax in one hand and a gun in the other...
MacMillan shattered a long cultivated image that he is outwardly "calm and unruffled." In addition said MacArthur, "many felt it was just not right to treat Lloyd in this way, since he had been at the Prime Minister's right shoulder for years...
...national boundaries blur, distances telescope, and the only trouble is trying to figure out what time it is. Just getting around is a kind of admission ticket to the International Set. "The main thing is to be seen in enough right places often enough," said Photographer Zerbe over his shoulder as he hopped a jet in Paris for Rome. "If you're seen at St.-Moritz for the skiing in February, on the beach at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Paris during the season (although there really wasn't any Paris season this year...