Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock, women and students clear out, and the theatre settles into total silence. The only sound is the usher, thrashing about as he watches the screen over his shoulder...
...jogs-in-place either at home or at the office. His expertise in the subject is matched by that of Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who is often involved with Essay, and for this one was a prime source. Shnayerson runs for his life every morning along the shoulder of Manhattan's car-clogged Henry Hudson Parkway, or in nearby Riverside Park, averaging 20 miles a week. One hazard of running in the park, he finds, is that dogs instinctively pursue a running man - and he has been paced by Great Danes and poodles...
...Lichtheim, to paraphrase Brecht, would have to sweat to get the common people into his book and he doesn't take the trouble. So history becomes the battle of great thinkers, each a bit self-conscious in this un-Hegelian day and age, looking over his shoulder now and again to see if the rude folk are in fact trailing along behind...
Harvard, a late-rally team all year long, put merciless pressure on Healey at the start of the final period, but the sophomore goaltender locked the Crimson out. Then, when Erickson stretched the Larrie lead to 5-1 by firing a carom over Diercks' shoulder at 7:13, the game was as good as over...
...snow and gale-force winds, followed by a quick thaw, forced postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...