Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just inside the entrance to ward E-3 a patient in her early thirties sits on the floor most of the day with her face buried in her hands, rocking back and forth and moaning; another woman looks blankly into space and pats her on the shoulder. In the center of the room, women in shabby dresses walk up and down, waving their arms. One of them stands and shifts her weight slowly from foot to foot. Other women just sit quietly and stare at the walls...
After working like a dirt farmer for days and nights, exhausted Orville Freeman left off from his new chores at the Agriculture Department and went to the movies. Moments after he sat down, the man behind him tapped Freeman on the shoulder. "This," said the President of the U.S. with a grin, "is a hell of a way to write a farm program...
...Belgians. Despite all of the Congo's troubles, the copper mines of Katanga's Belgian-owned Union Minière set production records last year, paid $50 million in taxes into Katanga's treasury. With his Belgian adviser, Colonel Guy Weber, always at his shoulder, Tshombe has launched an offensive to clear his province of Gizenga's invading soldiers. In partnership with the Léopoldville military boss, Major General Joseph Mobutu, Tshombe would like to go after Gizenga himself-if the U.N. were not in the way. "If others will leave us alone," he growled...
...plate Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller lived up to his reputation as the Republican Party's most dedicated back patter: enjoying himself hugely. Rocky slapped a slew of G.O.P. shoulder blades, even slung an affectionate arm around a handsome new bust of himself (by Italian Sculptor Gualberto Rocchi...
...victories on Roanoke Island are very correct." If the artist erred, he was certain to hear of it. Alfred Waud was greeted with derisive hoots for his picture of the charge of Sickles' Brigade at Fair Oaks, Va. in 1862, which showed the assaulting infantrymen with rifles at shoulder arms...