Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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March 17, 1666, Pepys commissioned his portrait from the painter John Hayls in Westminster: "I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to work by." The portrait survives. The deep-cut frown line marks an appetite for hard, late work, the genius for politics and administration, by which a London tailor's son became the virtual founder of the British navy at the opening of its 250-year supremacy. The full, recurving, sensuous mouth betrays the man of pleasure. But the eyes...
...injuries of Carl Biello and Bruce Johnson wiped out Harvard's chances of capturing matches at 134 and 167. Johnson, who cracked a rib while battling Cornell's Dave Crawford last week and Biello, resting an injured shoulder, should be back in the lineup next month...
...shoulder stand...
...signers, his cousin and boss, Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, recently spoke out against the idea as "simply regulation in another form." A recent poll of the Society of Newspaper Editors also came down on the negative side. NBC said: "The press already has too many people looking over its shoulder...
...falls asleep and sets fire to himself. Kotlowitz's best creations are the Pilchik sisters, a pair of earthy, lively, possibly stupid originals from Odessa who try to convert Mendel to socialism. They disappear into the larger historical drama of the October Revolution with an over-the-shoulder verdict that Mendel "is not a serious...