Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President then directed Dean to draft his own letter of resignation and show it to him. Dean, still resisting, later returned to Nixon's office and said he could not do this. "Nixon was mad," Dean claims. The President told Dean that the young counsel must "shoulder the burden" and that there was to be no full "airing." Moreover, Haldeman and Ehrlichman would stay on his staff. It was then that Dean decided that the other three-Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman-were trying to pin the entire cover-up on him. He issued his celebrated statement that...
...tribal pastime. Called lacrosse by French missionaries because the curved hickory sticks reminded them of a bishop's crosier, the game as played by Iroquois braves or Blue Jay undergrads is more riot than religious rite. Civilization and 300 years have brought such refinements as helmets and shoulder pads. Even so, the basic game plan still holds that the next best thing to scoring a goal is ad ministering a crunching body check. Johns Hopkins Coach Bob Scott, a former Army ranger, says that football has its more jarring moments but that "lacrosse is rougher than any other sport...
...lumber camp. Facing nature alone, unfettered by machinery, he will lead, a romantic spirit would suggest, the rustic existence he is suited for. As he prepares to leave, close-ups of this burly man in a tartan flannel workshirt, his axe once again on his shoulder, alternate with shots of his sturdy wife, Helene Loiselle, ready to run the household by herself for as long as he is away. But Jutra's conception is not romantic -- no more than Walker Evan's photographs of the depression. The two come together with passion. The depth of this passion appears only much...
...Chiffons what they are today. There were the usual highlights -- "At the Hop," "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," "Tell Laura I Love Her" -- and they all came off with a slick dexterity. But none of the songs made you really want to throw Mary Lou over your shoulder in mid-jitterbug or snuggle up in an end-of-the-dance waltz. The old magic just wasn't there...
Boston, on the other hand, could not substitute as freely as it did in the regular season because of the numerous injuries that decimated its ranks. Most noticeably, Havlicek had torn muscles in his right shoulder that kept him from combing his hair with that hand for a week. Chaney and Nelson also sufferred various minor injuries that slowed down the fast break that Boston counts...