Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that Willy disbelieves his own dreams does not prevent him from suspending that disbelief at the slightest provocation. It is this absurdly myopic vision of ours which keeps us from going quite mad--for how can one believe that Sisyphus would ever again put his shoulder to the rock were the total picture clear to him. No, he puts his shoulder to the rock always in the belief that this time he shall reach the top. And that vision of the top, at a distance from him measurable in finite hours of labor is the only real, compelling vision...
...Viking Defensive Tackle Alan Page was working up a heavy sweat. Page, however, was not practicing his pass rush. Dressed in a T shut stamped with the message NO FREEDOM, NO FOOTBALL, he was marching in a picket line. With ten other National Football League veterans Page had exchanged shoulder pads for placards in a successful effort to persuade the College All-Stars not to prepare for their scheduled game with the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins later this month...
...parody of Zane Grey. MacLean's tale gleefully highballs along at a brisk, cinematic clip. Funny touches are provided by the English understatements of MacLean's Pinkerton-man hero. He is the sort of chap who, on examining an arrow embedded in the heroine's shoulder, might mutter, "Mmmm, Apache, I shouldn't wonder...
...almost unanimous confirmation as Secretary of State from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last fall, and only two weeks ago returned in triumph from the Middle East after accomplishing a great diplomatic feat. No wonder that Kissinger, basking in success, did not notice that the cloud behind his shoulder had grown darker and more threatening in his absence...
...Radcliffe, from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day. After a slow autumn, when the buses were usually empty, the program began to gain momentum. By February what seemed like fleets of old rattling buses were careening all over the campus, with service expanded and students packed in shoulder to shoulder...