Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there, quite aside from NATO, to face and help offset Russia's 20 divisions in East Germany. To preserve equilibrium, any drastic diminution of American strength would have to be balanced by a corresponding increase in European strength. But prosperous Europe shows few signs of wanting to shoulder the burden; West Germany, for example, considers any further expansion of the Bundeswehr out of the question. Still, the Seventh Army is a political tool as well as a military one, and few observers outside of the Army are convinced that it has to stay at its present strength...
...Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar and machine-gun fire from a Red outpost hidden by shoulder-high, saw-edged elephant grass...
...Cholon, which means "Great Market," is a six-sq.-mi. enclave of Asian enterprise. In its sprawling, pagodalike marketplace, hunks of meat hang in bloody rows under swarms of flies; withered crones stir their black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their trade...
...Harvard eight, which began rowing at a steady beat of 39 strokes a minute, abruptly upped the count to 41, and opened up a 12-ft. lead at the 500-meter mark. For the rest of the race, the Crimson cox spent his time mostly looking over his shoulder. Harvard's final margin of victory was 70 ft. over Brown, followed by Cornell, Yale and Princeton in that order. The wizards from Penn finished last. Back to the drawing board, McGinn...
...With 2 min. 20 sec. gone in the overtime period, Montreal's Dave Balon tried to pass out from behind the Detroit goal. The pass was wild, but in one of those incredible caroms that makes hockey wildly exciting, the loose puck bounced off Henri Richard's shoulder, hit the ice and trickled into the nets. The Red Wings bitterly protested that Richard had illegally slapped the puck -to no avail. By a score of 3-2, the Canadiens had won the Stanley Cup for the 13th time and the second year in a row. His chest pains...