Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politicians campaigned through the wintry countryside preparing for last week's parliamentary elections, farmers gave one candidate the cold shoulder by drowning out his voice beneath the roar of their tractor engines. With 75% of the country's three million voters going to the polls, the election proved to be a tempest in an ice bucket. Almost nothing changed, and no single party dominated, leaving Kekkonen with the task of forming yet another coalition Cabinet...
Starr has been bothered by a sore shoulder, and coach John Lee fears there may be a slight shoulder separation causing the pain. Biello, a freshman, must remain in Cambridge to prepare for his first Harvard exams...
...suspect their own unwillingness or inability to make the effort, or they believe that not enough individuals will feel as strongly as they to make a united and effective stand. No one believes he or she will take on the burden, and, consequently, no one believes anyone else will shoulder it either...
...Mary Ann Clemens, a septuagenarian, admitted that she had lost control of her car and run down a neighbor while he was out for a stroll. The neighbor, Arthur McCall, suffered a separated shoulder and nerve injuries to a hand. He sued for damages. Up to that point it was a routine case. But no sooner had the lawyers presented their opening arguments before the common pleas court of Sandusky, Ohio, than a recess was called and two 18-in. TV screens were set up. After that, the twelve jurors simply sat back, stared at the tube...
Workers are also worried that the economy is not going to pick up soon. While unemployment remains high, they feel business is free to increase its profits. "We'll go along with controls if they are equitable," says Paul Schrade of the U.A.W. "But why should the workingman shoulder higher prices and fixed wages when the profitmakers are getting away scot-free...