Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quicker than the old AFL. After all, the AFL was knee-deep in pro wrestlers, cowboys, antique Olympians, mystics, and castoff construction workers for a good part of their first five years of existence. Back then, no one thought of tapping Paul Hornung or Bart Starr on the shoulder and asking him if he would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues. The AFL could buy some rookies, but what made it stand out were the porous pass defenses, jetburner receivers, and well... flakes. You know. Madmen. The unforeseeable. The untamed...
...course Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree reached their point quotas, with VPW breaking a new field and meet record with his 24 ft. 9 3/4 in. jump and Embree settling for 6 ft. 6 in. in the high jump. "The wind was coming right into the bar, and his shoulder was bothering him so he stopped at 6 ft. 6 in.," Stowell explained after the meet...
Trans-World Airlines has changed its summer air fare ads in student newspapers to say that its low "shoulder" rates for flights to Europe are effective only until May 31. Some ads also list the higher post-May rates. "We're very sensitive about these things," a spokesman for the airline's advertising agency said this week...
...still the 'shoulder season.' Starting June 1, the 'peak season' begins and we add a surcharge, accounting for the increase in fares," a TWA spokesman said yesterday...
...part on the enormous success of George Luca's low-budget American Graffiti. Now other young directors--Marty Scorsese, Terry Matlick, Steven Spielberg,--have made successful first films. But, Altman says, there are not enough. And the studios are still trying to keep their hands on the director's shoulder. "There should be room for more than just these," he says. "And Spielberg, for instance, is still under contract to Universal for about five more years, and as long as he's there he's going to have to come out of the underground because they're going...