Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mere formality, since Hanoi is estimated to have 10,000 regulars in the South already. Red China chimed in, too, offered for the umpteenth time to send volunteers at the request of the guerrillas. "The 650 million Chinese," roared Peking, were ready to send "our men to fight shoulder to shoulder with [the Viet Cong] to drive out the U.S. aggressors...
Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie: "I don't have any alternative that I consider realistic or any more effective than what the President is using. Trying to play the game looking over his shoulder without seeing his cards is difficult to do. On the face of it, I can't accept the idea of withdrawal. I feel unhappy about Viet Nam-but I'm not particularly rebellious. The idea of the measured response is what bothers people. They'd like a more clear-cut way to reach objectives. I don't see how he could...
Then the President went into the Rose Garden for a routine ceremony. That done, he went back to the White House, shouting over his shoulder to reporters, "I'll be back in a moment." He returned with Goldberg, his wife and son, Robert, 24, in tow. The President briskly told reporters that Goldberg was his man for the U.N. Then, as his wife stood by, her eyes sad, Arthur Goldberg made a moving acceptance speech. "I shall not, Mr. President, conceal the pain with which I leave the court after three years of service. It has been the richest...
...trademark of the television executive is a crick in the neck. It comes from looking back over his shoulder. For TV planners decide what they are going to do next season only by prayerfully studying the ratings of the past season: discovering what they did right but failed to sell, what they did wrong which nevertheless sold well, what rival networks did with success that they could do too. Then they decide to do more of same. A study of the 34 new shows and 58 holdovers scheduled for the new fall season shows that spies...
...Dyke's curvaceous fiancée, Angie Dickinson mourns him on Garner's shoulder and takes the easy way out of every crisis by fainting...