Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glanced over Sgt. Hurlbut's shoulder at the schedule. 0800-0815, Courtesy Call, Commanding Officer; 0815-0830, Coffee; 0830-0900, observe physical training; 0900-0915, observe first-aid training; 0915-0930, observe weapons class; 1000-1100, observe WAC museum; 1100-1130, lunch...
...trend toward smaller, portable cameras is not new. Shoulder-held black and white models ("creepy-peepies") made their debut on the floor of the 1964 nominating conventions, and color models were used four years later. Yet their blurred pictures badly needed improvement. CBS led the way with the camera it calls the minicam, and new Japanese models (one is called the "Handy-Looky") now weigh as little as 12 lbs. and produce images of good quality...
...piscine verisimilitude. Their gray and white polyurethane skin, sprayed with a fine-grained silica, is authentically sandpapery enough to be the envy of all the lady sharks at sea. Their eyes dart frighteningly, then-great tails are fully articulated, and their three-way stretch jaws-with head-and-shoulder roominess-are filled with three rows of pearly polyurethane teeth...
Since Ford will not be operating with the burdens of Watergate upon his shoulder, he will surely take the natural course of all previous presidents and set out to make his own imprint upon the nation's foreign policy. If nothing else, this means a switch from Kissinger carrying out Kissinger's policy to Kissinger carrying out Ford's. This change will mean little if Ford relies as heavily upon Kissinger as Nixon did. However, there are several compelling reasons to believe that Ford's foreign policy will be formulated from a much wider base than the Nixon-Kissinger axis...
...from the stack of a nearby factory leaves an acrid smell in the air. Leaflets are being passed out on the street, and, as you lean over to grab one...someone knocks a copy of "Beyond the Melting Pot" off a shelf above you, it catches you on the shoulder, and you are back again, with nothing other than your course catalogue in your hands...