Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus appeared to be splitting his ticket, the judge would reach inside to tap him on the shoulder or even re-enter the booth...
...minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton...
...notes that in the much quoted line, "These fragments I have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have thought that no adjective could...
Solomon Gomez, who has scored 6 goals this season to trail Bogovich for team honors, was forced out of action against Brown with an ankle bruise and has been slowed since then. Captain Scott Robertson has been playing with an ankle sprain and knee and shoulder injuries. Jaime Vargas, slowed by a leg injury in the Brown game, should be fully recovered for Yale...
...automatically opened by something clipped onto the airplane called a Static Line Device. The parachute opens and slows you down into the regular descent four seconds later. You count for six seconds. If at the end of that time your parachute hasn't opened, you look over your right shoulder to see what's happened...