Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there almost in front of me," said Moore. "There was a while when it was so crowded I wasn't sure I could get a clear shot. But it was so easy, it was unbelievable. I pulled my gun out, took careful aim very slowly." She held the gun shoulder-high with her right hand, bracing it with the left. She said she rushed the shot "by a few seconds. I realized after I fired, I aimed high. If I had my .44, I would have caught...
...agents carry .357 Magnum revolvers in shoulder holsters. They keep in constant touch via powerful short-wave walkie-talkies; to keep both hands free at all times, they wear earpieces, transceivers on their belts, and tiny microphones at their wrists. The working style of the agents immediately guarding the President tends to reflect his own personality. Kennedy's agents were alert but relatively inconspicuous and, like their charge, showed a fondness for the good life. Johnson's entourage tended to be tenser and more belligerent, sometimes silencing hecklers with flying tackles. The Secret Servicemen surrounding Nixon were characteristically aloof...
Saxon's spectacular over-the-shoulder grab at 2:38 of the second quarter pulled Harvard to within one point, and the Crimson fans then braced themselves for another chapter in Harvard's extra-point blues. After two unsuccessful kick attempts last week against Holy Cross, there was some room for improvement, but a poor centering pass led to another blocked kick and the score held...
Freshman year, Kubacki couldn't play because of shoulder problems. Sophomore year, he played in two JV games until, as fate would have it, another injury put him out for the season...
RIDING ACROSS the dusty plains of Mexico with Pancho Villa and his band; rallying the members of the International Workers of the World to close the Paterson silk mills; storming the Winter Palace in Leningrad, shoulder to shoulder with the Bolsheviks in 1917--this is the stuff of which a radical's fantasies are made. Indeed, the entire adult life of John Reed '10 reads like a travelogue of the great events of the first two decades of this century. It is a long way from Portland, Oregon, where Reed was born in 1887 to a prosperous family...