Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoulder to Shoulder. Another factor in classroom violence, says the committee, is overcrowded juvenile correction centers. In Washington, the juvenile reception home was designed to house 75 youths; it now holds 375. At the Philadelphia Youth Study Center, reports a committee investigator, rows of sullen boys often sit shoulder to shoulder all day on rows of wooden benches, getting up only for meals and a brief recreation period. With no place to put violent youngsters, authorities are forced to turn them loose-and compulsory attendance laws send them right back to school...
...radio tuned to a police channel squawks. A girl in a yellow dress. a golden watch medallion and brown Clairol hair. comes into the room and sits next to a young reporter with executive sideburns. She has a big bag looped around her shoulder. and large square-framed yellow-golden metallic glasses. The Club Room is hot and close...
...trousers zip tight around his ankles to fit closely, and how the cuffs on the arms snap tight. He reaches over to the pocket on his left sleeve, unzippers it, whips out three crushed cigarettes, puts them all into his month. From the pack-sized pocket below his shoulder pocket he takes out a Nicoban. He chews the real cigarettes, discards them, inhales on the plastic Nicoban...
...early pace on the soggy course was slow and about four Harvard runners were out front with Piazza and Princeton's Eamon Downey. Halfway through the race. Colburn and Piazza were running shoulder-to-shoulder with Mike Koerner and Pottetti close behind...
...central figure is 1st Lieut. Marius Catto. The 24-year-old lieutenant is an orphan who feels that the Union Army is his first real home, a bumbling but compassionate leader, an idealistic virgin consumed by lust. Catto manages to get himself shot in the shoulder by Martin mainly out of sheer carelessness. He feels no animosity toward the boy, and while recuperating from his wound, Catto fights the court-martial and the subsequent execution with an increasingly anguished awareness of the complexities of life. "What had been a duel, lost honorably and without resentment, became a charade, himself...