Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have the ability to move the team under pressure. John O'Grady was the most highly rated at the beginning of last fall. An accurate passer and good runner, O'Grady's only weakness is his size. He is only 5-10 and 180 lbs. An injury to his shoulder early in the season prevented him from seeing as much action as he might have...
...that he had important information about a major Communist plot to take over the television networks and radio stations. Dr. Spiegel provided no other information; he implied, however, that the subject could provide his own details and would not forget the story until he was touched on the left shoulder...
Finally touched on the left shoulder, the subject forgot the entire fabrication until he was shown the film five months later. He was flabbergasted. Left of center politically, he thought himself fundamentally skeptical of Communist-conspiracy theories. Even the details did not strike any familiar chord. He does not drink any beer; he had never been to a Greenwich Village loft and knew no Harris or anyone like the man he had so vividly described...
...likes to keep his camera on the actors as long as possible, often following them in medium close shot over long distances, thereby establishing character detail rare in a short police thriller. Note, for example, the affection Commissioner Russell (Henry Fonda) plainly has for the freckles on his mistress' shoulder, or the visual relationship between Detective Madigan (Widmark) and his partner toward their car and New York City...
Last fall, despite a back and shoulder injury, he finally saw action, though he was unable to break into the starting lineup. "He might have been able to, if he had not been injured so much," said line coach Jim Fuela...