Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some six miles south of Machias on Route 1 the cars pass a man in a blue workshirt and brown denim pants, striding along the shoulder of the road. Some of the cars honk and the man waves in response. Approaching a farmhouse, he leaves the road to greet a farmer standing by the side of the building. "Hi, I'm Bill Cohen," he says. "I'm walking through the county and wanted to stop by and see how things are going...
...friends. I don't know exactly what it was about Sally that attracted me to her. Perhaps it was her slightness of size. I think the real thing which caused me to like Sally was her defiant air when she was around normal adults. She would look over her shoulder at whatever adult happened to be around, grimace at the sight of them, stick her ass out at them in an emphatic sort of way, and then...
True. There were no weaknesses in Willie Mays' career except a refusal to count the years. But last week he had to add up 42 of them, complete with fluid-swollen knees that had to be drained almost daily, an agonizing shoulder that would not let him throw, aching ribs that barely permitted him to breathe. "Maybe I'll cry tomorrow," Mays said, but he finally decided to hang it up after 22 resplendent years in baseball...
...fact, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning Useful to Aten. Women's Lib would have loved him: he gave equal billing, in bas-relief and statuary, to his Queen, Nefertiti. She was portrayed in the sleek drapery she might actually have worn, one shoulder bare, a clasp under her right breast. In dark red quartz, the Queen's torso, on loan from the Louvre, is one of the beauties of the exhibition...
...would want to spy on the Brown football team?" "Now listen you, you can't take that camera in there." I gave him my camera. Fifteen minutes later, I was sitting in the 61st row on the home-field side of the stadium. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was the Brown assistant director of sports information. "You can have your camera back." "But what about the spying?" "I guess it's all right to take some pictures if you like." So I took a roll of pictures. None of them came...