Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political debate of the 1976 election will center on whether the Government should shoulder yet more of the burdens or should concentrate on enlarging individual responsibilities. Jerry Ford has no doubts about his side in the debate. He sounds as if he had found an old Coolidge text in a White House closet. "What we need in this country is not a New Deal but a fresh start. What we need is not more federal control, but the adventure of personal achievement...
...Empire State Building--causing certain havoc. Fred agreed and abandoned his scheme, but the further we drove, the more the language seemed pregnant with his notion. The road grew from the soil, was entrenched in it and ever spawned by it. The countryside was a vast shoulder to run on to when fatigue became insistent, and the miles only brought darkness and more miles and heavy air and weighted silences til finally we were entrenched in America and swimming through its four-wheeled overflow, in its high-rolling, garbage consuming intestinal tract...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...
MacEwen also believes inmates must be taught to take responsibility. "A man comes home to four kids and a wife, and he's expected to be a provider. He's not been prepared during incarceration to shoulder responsibility. I don't condemn a man who's been out six months and then commits another crime. By returning to prison, he doesn't have to worry about bills being paid or whether his kids are decently clothed...
...sign may say WELCOME TO QUAINTSVILLE, but the real message may be GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. That, at least, is what many tourists are beginning to suspect as they get the cold shoulder from communities. The locals are increasingly questioning the assumption that hordes of visitors automatically mean progress and prosperity-and they may be right...