Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barge Man Toward sundown, people began drifting down to the riverbank. A few kids impatiently paddled their toes in the water. A young husband shushed a baby on his shoulder. On the far shore a car pulled up, waited, drove away; the ferry was not running tonight. Then, from the barge floating a few feet out in the rippling Ohio River, the music danced deliciously across the water. This was the big day of the year in Ravenswood, W. Va. (pop. 4,500), and almost everybody was on hand to enjoy...
Muskie knows that, as a front runner, he must shoulder the burden of proof. Says one aide: "There's not a primary he ought not go into. We're going to set up as if we're going into all of them, and then in January we'll decide the priorities and make up our minds which ones we'll concentrate...
...trading center is the town of Peñas Blancas, a huddle of 50 rickety buildings. There a mining-squad leader spreads out his haul before a family boss who may carry a million pesos (about $50,000) in a shoulder-strap bag. The emeralds are hauled back to Bogota, where many are sold to foreign dealers in back rooms of the dim bars and cafes that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets...
...rare Saturday session in the marble Supreme Court chamber was testimony to the importance of the two cases at issue. Dressed somberly, the opposing attorneys prepared papers for their historic confrontation before the nine robed Justices. All 300 seats in the chamber were full and newsmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the press alcove. At precisely 11 a.m., the red velvet curtains parted, the Justices took their seats, and Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, distinguished former dean of Harvard Law School, launched a 53-minute opening argument...
...also learning to apply his speed to his slightly uncertain fielding. In a game against the New York Mets-which Garr won in the 12th inning by uncharacteristically blasting an opposite-field home run-he robbed Met Shortstop Bud Harrelson of a sure triple with a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch at full gallop. "They say a man can't outrun a baseball," groaned Harrelson, "but Ralph Garr...