Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retorted Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair man Earle G. Wheeler: "If you stop bombing North Viet Nam, in effect you throw one of your blue chips for negotiation over your shoulder...
...whole cloves of garlic. So the little-girl look is in? The Italians turned out their models in white stockings and low-cut boys' shoes. Dresses are above the knee? Why not halfway up the thigh? The bare, bare look is right for the evening? Then loop one-shoulder gowns down to the waist, slash the skirts up to the thigh...
...evening wear, Pucci led off the "nudity at night" look with pink silk-jersey Turkish harem pants that left the legs exposed to the hips. Tiziani had his models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...
Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
...preservatives, additives, and other chemicals. The agency did not have nearly enough manpower to do a thorough job, nor was its prestige enough to attract men of the necessary scientific skill. Meanwhile, both the drug industry and organized medicine, which had resources and skills, felt that they could shoulder the principal responsibility for policing drugs and drug dispensing and should be regulated as little as possible. But in both the industry and the profession there was a minority of careless, unethical operators from whom the public had to be guarded...