Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This, anyway, is Nye Richardson Gifford, 63, chief of the Lymington Police and a certain mixture of Philip Marlowe and Christ who has had to wait to shoulder his greatest human burden and solve his biggest crime until now, the beginning of this novel. Until a sunny August afternoon in 1972 and the discovery, on a back road in Lymington, of the body of a youngish woman, her identity blasted past police identification by four .38 caliber slugs to the face...
...felt close to him and layed my head on his shoulder, wanting a daddy to hold me ... I hoped that he would pursue me or touch me, or rape me or anything good really, yet without me giving up to it. It was a little girl-game I wanted to play. But instead he told me: "So, you've been hurt and now you've locked yourself up. You've got all your love tied up in the past, and associated with bad or sad experiences. You wanted your daddy to hit you, didn...
Face-Saving Formula. Only last year politicians had literally spat in each other's faces. This time, perhaps because they realize that time may be running out, the atmosphere was better: Catholic Politician Paddy Devlin was even seen walking with his arm on the shoulder of Northern Ireland's most vociferous apostle of Protestant supremacy, the Rev. Ian Paisley. But atmosphere is one thing, and substance another. The Protestant Loyalists offered to let Catholics serve as chairmen of several key legislative committees, but they maintained that Catholics could not rightly lay claim to any Cabinet posts. The largely...
...while he was sitting on the bunk. He came at me ... Each time he came, I struck at him. He grabbed me by the wrists, then he was behind me. I put my feet against the bunk to place my weight against him. I hit him over my right shoulder. He fell middleway on the bunk forward, his head facing the wall, his knees on the floor...
...vanquished inhibitions, they also led to paranoia. "If I smoked a joint and went into a restaurant where people were laughing," she explains, "you could not convince me that they were not laughing at me. The lady in the corner holding the compact was looking at me over her shoulder." A year ago, her throat raw from marijuana, she decided to stop using all drugs. Now she avoids even aspirin...