Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Jim Sloan, 23, returned to Harvard after service as an Army sergeant in Viet Nam, he was laughingly labeled "the resident fascist pig of Adams House." Richard Parish, 22, was an Air Cav rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then...
...from turning a cold shoulder, the public responded so enthusiastically that last week the disappearing-environmentalists were summoned back for a return engagement. This time the artists built nine pyramids out of 20 tons of dry-ice blocks over a period of three days. By the time the last was up, the first had already evaporated from its original ziggurat perfection down to a jumble of tipsy marshmallow forms...
Fright & Madness. Out of the corner of his eye, Goodman noticed a shadowy movement. It was a dog that had been feeding on his son's body. Soon, two other dogs appeared, and Goodman found himself fighting for his life. Hoisting Gene's body over his shoulder, and using his free hand to throw rocks and branches at the attack ing animals, Goodman ran as fast as he could. As he neared his home, the dogs finally gave up the chase. Goodman was so overwrought and exhausted that he passed out. Later, a posse of about 50 neighbors...
...fast, trying to beat his opponent to the block, catch him off-balance, squirt past him before he can plant himself. To confuse blockers, defenders will "stunt," or loop around each other; they may charge high to hurdle a block, or duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back of the line of scrimmage, is safe any more. Kickers who used to count...
...American Revolution was pitched on a moral plane. The patriots were concerned not only about mankind's good opinion, but, as Tom Paine felicitously phrased it, believed it to be in their power 'to make a world happy.' " Morris sees the willingness of contemporary Americans to shoulder global responsibilities as an outgrowth of that revolutionary vision. The greatest lesson of the Revolution, he says, is a tolerance for change: "To that radically reshaped world in which we live, the message of the American Revolution is as relevant as its meaning is profound...