Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positive side, halfback Bobby Leo and guard Bob Barrett returned from the injured list, and just in time, too. Sophomore Leo, who is thought in some circles to be the best thing to hit Harvard football since shoulder pads, will give Yovicain's desperately shorthanded second backfield the experienced halfback it needed to run alongside John Dockery...
...first noise as a rifle shot, and the thought immediately crossed his mind that it was an assassination attempt. From his position in the right jump seat immediately in front of the President, he instinctively turned to his right because the shot appeared to come from over his right shoulder. Unable to see the President as he turned, the Governor started to look back over his left shoulder, but he never completed the turn because he felt something strike him in the back...
...Connally, too, heard a frightening noise from her right. Looking back over her right shoulder, she saw that the President had both hands at his neck. She watched as he slumped down with an empty expression on his face. [Secret Service Agent] Roy Kellerman, in the right front seat of the limousine, heard a report like a firecracker. Turning to his right in the direction of the noise, Kellerman heard the President...
...Down!" Two cars to the rear, in the Lincoln carrying the Lyndon Johnsons and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, Secret Service Man Rufus W. Youngblood heard "an explosive noise." He wheeled around from the front seat, hit Johnson on the shoulder and yelled, "Get down!" Reported Johnson: "Almost in the same moment in which Youngblood hit or pushed me, he vaulted over the back seat and sat on me. I was bent over under the weight of Agent Youngblood's body, toward Mrs. Johnson and Senator Yarborough...
...just about out all over, particularly in the South, where they have been usurped by high-schoolers, and Bermuda shorts are slowly giving way to full-length slacks or, better still, skirts. Back in the swing, after a decade of use only by Boy Scouts and photographers, is the shoulder-strap bag. "Jiffy" coats-halfway between a coat and a jacket in length -are as popular as Beatles; favorite fabrics are stretchable wools, hottest pattern is houndstooth checks. "The coffee-shop look is out," says a Philadelphia fashion coordinator. "It's been replaced by the clean look." Boston...