Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some, it will be just a casual jog, but many students are in good shape and have been preparing for races of this distance for sometime. Last year's first and second place finishers, Clive Kileff and Guy Carden, are now racing with the varsity cross country team...
...Peace Corps, just then taking shape, appealed powerfully to his evangelistic instincts. He enlisted the support of Director Shriver and of Washington Attorney James H. Rowe Jr., a longtime Johnson friend. Wrote Rowe to Sargent Shriver, the corps' director: "If I were a young man, I think I would be content at the age of 26 to be the top assistant of the Vice President. But this boy Moyers is willing to give this up, without a backward look, so he can 'do good.' The world is full-and the Peace Corps will be-of people...
...outside world had long acknowledged-that U.S. orchestras were the world's finest. Russian cultural circles began buzzing with talk of the "orchestra gap." One of the most outspoken critics was Kiril Kondrashin, then conductor with the Bolshoi opera, who bluntly declared that Russian orchestras had to shape up. Four years later, when Kondrashin was appointed conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic, he admitted that "the U.S. orchestra is the ideal I am working toward...
...Asian Bank is taking shape at a time when development aid to the world's needy countries is falling steadily behind their needs. Despite rising prosperity in the U.S. and Europe, the flow of aid from these sources has remained static since 1961 at $9 billion a year, now amounts to a trifling .9% of the developed nations' total output of goods and services. Last week Lyndon Johnson signed a comparatively modest $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriation, but the U.S. still carries more than its share of aid. Despite nudging from Washington, Europe has been slow to pick...
...They'll be up for this one; no doubt about it," said Crimson coach Bill McCurdy. "But I'm optimistic. Our boys are in the best shape they've been in all year...