Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world were flat, the end of the earth would undoubtedly be French Guiana. A remote, jungle-shrouded patch on the northeast shoulder of South America, one-sixth the size of metropolitan France (see map), the colony is so stagnant that its population has increased by only 10,000 in 350 years, to its present total of 31,000 inhabitants. French Guiana's chief contributions to mankind so far have been one of history's most infamous prisons, Devil's Island, and the loan of the name of its sleepy capital, Cayenne, to a famous variety of pepper...
...came from about 30 feet out, on a pass from Smith. The second came with Harvard a man short. It was set up by a perfect pass up the boards from Bob Clark; McCullough's shot whizped into the upper right corner of the net, just over Bellemore's shoulder...
...bill." While he was Senate majority leader, Johnson's "treatment" became famous. In cloak room and corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone (and he was seldom off it) he was equally effective. Hubert Humphrey once complained that the only way he could resist Johnson's hypnotic persuasiveness was by not answering the phone...
...kind of cinema king. He doesn't wear smoked glasses, carry a bull whip and snap orders over his manicurist's shoulder like the major bosses of old. And of course he is not one of the modern independents who incubate their eggs in other people's nests. Wasserman is a corporate president in show business, a modified First National City banker who has wandered through an unusual door, and he has shaped MCA into a trimly efficient manufacturing corporation, ample in size, and self-sufficient, whose net earnings have risen without setback from...
Moser's call for a cold shoulder was cold-shouldered by most of his Yale colleagues. Robert Jackson, a specialist in Russian literature, called Moser's statement "irresponsible," and said that the university should be hospitable to obnoxious opinions. Even Frederick Barghoorn, who spent 16 days in a Moscow jail last year as an alleged U.S. spy, gulped and endorsed Rozhdestvensky's visit as a useful dialogue that explores rival opinions...