Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the workers simply have little incentive to work longer. With the state running their lives and assuming the responsibilities normally reserved to the individual in other societies, the worker knows full well that the government will take care of him. Problems of organizational confusion, massive featherbedding, and a shoulder-shrugging bureaucracy stifle whatever little initiative might remain. Most of all, of course, there is a lack of pay incentive. Under socialism, there is little difference between the wages of skilled and unskilled workers, and almost no difference in pay between the worker who sweats over his machine...
Last season, Sione took rugby leisurely enough to lead the varsity in scoring as a freshman. This season, he suffered a shoulder separation in the Crimson's first practice and was lost for much of the schedule. There is a gaping hole in the middle of Sione's big smile because, as he explains, "I was down two yards from the goal and someone kicked me in the teeth. I didn't score -- it really made me angry...
...runs galore for their money. Harvard chipped in four miscues, bringing the game total to 13. Harvard captain Joe O'Donnell pulled off Harvard's third hidden ball trick of the season to help bail McCandlish out of an early jam, and the base umpire got hit in the shoulder by a line drive. Everyone agreed that he was just part of the field...
Welz and Peters both faced the risk of losing their bonuses if they waited two more years. A starting defensive end his sophomore year. Welz hurt his shoulder playing football and might have re-injured it if he had played for two more seasons. And Peters, whose arm is considerably more precious and vulnerable in the cold New England weather, would always have to beware of the tendonitis that sidelined him freshman year. There is also a lot more for a pitcher to learn before he is ready for major league ball. Although the Red Sox have given Peters...
...wife, Catherine, have four children, aged 14 to 22) is his only real hobby. At the time he joined the N.A.S.D., he characteristically expressed regret at abandoning the "relatively uncomplicated" life he had been living in Milwaukee. What with the SEC and member firms looking over his shoulder, Haack might find that his life as capitalism's No. 1 salesman is quite complicated...