Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing is certain. From Bombay to Berkeley, Vinh Long to Volgograd, he has clearly signaled his determination to live according to his own lights and rights. His convictions and actions, once defined, will shape the course and character of nations...
...tell them if they want a sack suit they should go to Brooks Brothers." What Stanbury and his confreres have done is to marry English and American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces to 20 ounces per running yard; San Franciscans choose almost English weights, but otherwise, says Stanbury, "we can't sell anything over twelve ounces...
...only problem after an American has received his handmade Savile Row suit is how to care for it. U.S. cleaners, say the British tailors, machine-press suits on a standard form that tends to stamp out whatever shape was tailored in. But Huntsman, for one, has an answer for even that. Once a year or so, its customers send their suits back to London and Huntsman will have them wet-cleaned and pressed by hand, thus returning the suit to its original texture and shape. Huntsman's magic ingredient? Scotch river water...
...panic. There is great pressure on him to call general elections next month-at a time when his own party is beclouded in "black mists" of scandal and split by factional rivalries. But Sato seems unworried. The reason is that the main opposition party is in even worse shape than his Liberal Democrats...
After the wisdoms, the teeth most likely to become impacted are the canines, which may be trapped between the incisors and the bicuspids (the double-pointed teeth immediately behind them). The canines are so important to both the shape and function of the jaws that the dental surgeon should do his utmost to help them achieve their normal position. Only if that is impossible should canines be extracted. Even when an impacted tooth is clearly infected, there is still disagreement as to when it ought to come out. Should the dentist wait for the infection to be healed by antibiotics...