Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pushing each student to try the uncomfortable, unorthodox use of a technique that Miss Vosgerchian's vehemence has brilliance. She sits by a student's shoulder at the piano, questioning, wheedling, soothing, demanding that he try an exercise one more way. "You don't think I'm going to let you be comfortable, do you?" she said to a student. "All you can do is to be up against something and use it for what it offers...
Singles veterans are beginning to form judgments: "The thing about the Borscht Belt-Grossinger's, the Concord-that sort of thing," says a Bloomingdale's shoe salesman, "is that all those broads go up there with a chip on their shoulder, ready to check out the first time they get a soft egg. But on a cruise-who's to check...
...department never ceases. A Bangor Punta subsidiary, General Ordnance Equipment Corp., which has done very well with its highly profitable Mace, has another comer in a 25-lb. device that generates a billowing smoky haze called Pepper Fog. The $395 tubular generator can be slung and aimed from the shoulder, and it has cleared 400 rioting prisoners from a large building in 2½ minutes. The company, having sold what it had thought would be a full year's supply in four months, has lately increased production facilities fivefold...
...Just relax," the nurse was saying. And the patient wanted to scream, "You whore, is that all you can say?" But instead, feeling her hand on his shoulder, he put his hand on hers, and relaxed...
...categorically disclaims interest. There are few Maryland Democrats who can honestly do the same. House Majority Leader Tom Lowe, for instance, is a close friend of Mandel's, but admits: "If Marvin falls on his face, he'll have a size-ten shoe-mine-between his shoulder blades...