Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than usually powerful need to assert their manhood through deadly exertion. Glory is at its best when it shows their proud embrace of 19th century warfare at its most brutal. Director Edward Zwick graphically demonstrates the absurdity of lines of soldiers slowly advancing across open ground, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of withering rifle volleys and horrendous cannonade. The fact that the 54th finally achieves respect (and opens the way for other black soldiers) only by losing half its number in a foredoomed assault on an impregnable fortress underscores this terrible and brutal irony...
...high-flying financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts to find a scapegoat to shoulder the blame for the entire thrift crisis...
Injury Update: Senior Tod Hartje and sophomore Brian McCormack both left Friday night's game with shoulder injuries and have missed the first few practices of the week...
...Crimson (3-5) had its hopes for an upset dealt a severe blow Monday afternoon in practice, when Ralph James, the team's leading scorer, dislocated his shoulder. The junior forward is expected to return in two to three weeks. Harvard also played without the services of freshman Tchad Robinson, who was out of action with a nagging groin injury...
...rebels were not known to have the heat-seeking SA-7s until they fired one at a Salvadoran jet last week. The shoulder-held SA-7 is a Soviet-designed cousin of the more advanced U.S. Stinger rocket that significantly boosted the power of the mujahedin in the Afghan war. "These missiles could really make a difference," says a key U.S. Senate staffer. The insurgents offered to sheathe the weapon if the air force stopped bombing and strafing ground targets, but Cristiani is unlikely to accept the deal...