Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triggerman. And three's a crowd. The ingredients for an intraparty explosion were already there, but it was McCarthy who pulled the trigger with his New Hampshire showing. Before the debris had settled, Kennedy moved to shoulder him aside. Scarcely a month after he had unequivocally denied speculation that he would challenge the President, the Senator announced: "I am reassessing my position." Before he reached a final decision, he made an extraordinary offer to the President (see box, p. 18), to which Johnson, not surprisingly, said no. Kennedy soon afterward decided...
Kennedy had no compunction whatever about trying to shoulder McCarthy aside a mere few hours after the votes were in. Yet between Wednesday morning, when he loosed his reassessment arrow at McCarthy's balloon, and Thursday night, when he made the irrevocable decision to go ahead, Kennedy went through some elaborate maneuvers. He met privately with
...hard to think of Jack Nicklaus as an old man, especially at 28, when he is still the favorite to win practically every tournament he plays. But Jack is suddenly experiencing the problem that every aging prodigy faces: youngsters are tapping him on the shoulder and saying, "Move over, Dad." This spring, as never before, professional golf has been invaded by an army of ambitious newcomers who can belt a ball every bit as far as their elders (or farther), dig divots on the greens with the bite of their approach shots, and putt as if the cups were canyons...
...deadliest line in the league. Center Ratelle has 30 goals and 45 assists, ranks No. 2 in the league in scoring (behind Chicago's Stan Mikita). Right Wing Gilbert trails Ratelle by one goal; and Left Wing Hadfield, who missed a fifth of the season with a broken shoulder, has contributed 19 goals and 19 assists. For muscle, there is Reggie Fleming, a stocky "bad boy" who has spent 122 minutes in the penalty box-not to mention Orland Kurtenbach, who twice last year scored one-punch knockouts in extracurricular contests on the ice. And Goalie Ed Giacomin leads...
McClennen, a tempermental three-year letterman who hated to lose, looked over his shoulder and saw the Syracuse shell coming up fast. He hollered a warning, and in one stroke the Crimson accelerated...