Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being so brilliantly a social scientist. He is bringing in Dr. Ametai Etzioni and all these fabulous characters to tell you about management and things of that kind, and he leaves out the K'anghsi emperor--and everybody lying back of Chairman Mao--who are really peering over his shoulder...
...rifle must be locked solidly into the shoulder, with the stock flush along the jawbone. The left hand is almost fully extended, holding the barrel, and the right hand snaps off the shot. The gunner keeps both eyes open and on the top of the target, since most shooters instinctively shoot low. He does not aim. "That's a dirty word around here," says a Benning sergeant...
...fair lady." But John Cunningham uses an annoyingly exaggerated clipped delivery, and his inflections leave no doubt that he is less drawn to the fair lady than to her wealth ("a lady richly left,"sunny locks. . . like a golden fleece"). And when Shylock puts a finger on his shoulder, he pulls back in a gesture of loathing.M...
...thigh-high leather boots. Pauline Trigère offers the medieval look with hooded neckpieces that come off to reveal deep V necklines in close-fitting, floor-length gowns with long sleeves. For lady football fans, there are Geoffrey Beene"touchdown" dresses - long, sequined sacks in purple with yellow shoulder patches or arm stripes and big numerals on the front, just like overextended football jerseys. Rudi Gernreich is pushing a combination of what he calls the "Renaissance page quality" and the astronaut look, mixing his capes with Layne Nielsen's visored helmets, or putting together a long corduroy coachman...
...fashionable nowadays to deride American altruism as "unconscious imperialism," or worse, the U.S. had realized-even before combat in Europe ended on May 8, 1945-that as the world's wealthiest nation and the only major power that had endured the war unscathed, it would inevitably have to shoulder the burden of reconstruction. Until early 1947, Marshall had hoped that the Soviet Union would cooperate; he later offered aid to war-wracked Russia and Eastern Europe...