Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrived first. Then came Jerry and Betty Ford. Nixon was next, with his daughter Tricia. For a fleeting second there was tension. Nixon looked unsure, older than the group remembered him. He did not seem to be the man of impeccable tailoring they recalled. His trousers were even a shade too short. Then Ford and Kissinger went up to Nixon to shake hands. The unease vanished, talk began...
That was the lowest level since October 1974. It equaled a goal that the Carter Administration had set, then quietly abandoned, for its first year in office. Indeed, it was a shade lower than the rate of unemployment that many economists had predicted for the close...
...halfway up the curving northwest driveway. On winter nights its 105-ft.-tall crown framed the floodlighted White House portico, its graceful branches seeming to cradle the mansion. In summer it rustled softly and spread soothing shade across the lawn. Old 75's trunk was 8 ft. thick at the base. It was the most solid citizen of the front acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor...
tall and weighed 140 Ibs.; today Ms. Average is pushing 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs 143 Ibs. The average male used to be a shade more than 5 ft. 8 in. tall and weighed 166 lbs.; now he is 5 ft. 9 in. and tips the scales at 172 lbs.?a 4% weight gain. In general, shorter people have gained the least weight; the added avoirdupois has been most striking among taller men and women...
...confident of his powers. As one would expect from this conductor, there is no arbitrary tampering with tempos, or other excesses marching under the banner of personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets this album, apart-from its ancestors and competitors alike-is its distinctive blend of youthful pizazz and seasoned know...