Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went its merry alcoholic way. In private apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat, but it was just as likely he was en route to a customer thirsty enough not to mind the rubbery taste of an inner tube...
...dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth of firecrackers announces a wedding, a birth, or the grand opening of a new noodle store...
Moore has mellowed since he came up as a 20-year-old "chippy" (jargon for a player with a chip on his shoulder), but he still approaches the game as though it were football on ice. "When I give a guy a good body check and get a penalty, it's still worth it," he admits, "as long as the check's a clean...
Before the coin toss, co-announcer Bob Neal, galavanting over the gridiron in a baggy reccoon coat, introduced the starting line-ups on a hook-up that included the 40,000 at Soldiers Field. He belted each player on the shoulder and yelled "Good luck, boy," as each starter in turn smirked at the red light...
...couriers, traveling under the name of Altmann, readily identified himself as a Czech army major and his companion as a Czech army captain. Each copy of classified government documents is identifiable by a secret mark, and the marks on the microfilmed papers pointed straight to Frenzel. Tapped on the shoulder in the Bundestag a few minutes after finishing his speech, Frenzel meekly began mumbling a confession during the ride to Karlsruhe Prison...