Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tulip-shaped oar that gets a better bite on the water, conceived the idea of rigging the No. 4 and 5 oars on the starboard side of the shell to reduce veering. He also became the first coach to put his men on a weight-lifting regimen to build shoulder muscles. The only thing that Adam didn't do was learn how to live with the few defeats that came his way. Last year, after Ratzeburg narrowly lost out in the Olympic finals to Philadelphia's hot-shot Vesper Boat Club, Adam locked himself up in a room...
...poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...
...Redeye antiaircraft missile should give the infantryman his own weapon against strafing planes. It can be fired from the shoulder, is capable of finding its target by sensing the heat of the airplane's engine...
...your tale of Washington's plethora of cold-shoulder dresses [June 18]: it breaks my heart to think of all the $160 Malcolm Starr gowns that will no longer be worn this side of Kuala Lumpur. I look heavenly in green and would be happy to wear one in Minneapolis...
...that afternoon, 150 newsmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the oval office for one hour and 33 minutes while Lyndon Johnson, not inhibited by the presence of television, lounged comfortably behind his desk-and talked on and on and on about every subject under the moon...