Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dangerous position of being the most likely Soviet bloc nation to be invaded next by the Red army is Rumania, which has an 826-mile common border with the U.S.S.R. Rumanian Party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu has championed from the beginning the right of Czechoslovakia's reformers to shape their own socialist destiny. When Prague was overrun, he condemned the Soviet attack as "justified by nothing" and defiantly warned a cheering crowd of some 100,000 Rumanians in Bucharest's Republic Square that "tomorrow, perhaps someone will call this rally of ours counterrevolutionary too." Tass was quick to oblige...
...most drama, events shape the character. In Hunger, nothing happens-and in that vacuum occurs the conflict between the writer's mind and the world's will. At first he is euphoric. But with steady rejection and growing poverty, he becomes like his pencil, inexorably worn away until only a stub remains. Though there is an abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable...
...Confederacy and the Border States nominated the Republican ticket, and will shape its campaign. The winds from Dixie make Hubert Humphrey the Democratic pacesetter and will similarly trim his sails into November. Thus, to the naked eye, the South appears to have risen again. A closer look does not quite bear out the more sweeping assumptions about Southern power, but Dixie has indisputably earned the attention it gets...
Like a racing driver skidding on a turn, France is stepping on the throttle in the hope of regaining the economic straightaway. It is a difficult maneuver but, if it works, the French economy by the end of next year could wind up in better shape than before...
...best, such predictions are still a rough art. Depending on its size, shape and density, as well as atmospheric conditions, a satellite or other piece of space hardware can plunge down on a steep trajectory, glide relatively slowly through the air, or skip along like a pebble across water. To assure accuracy, Roth gets updated calculations from NORAD two or three hours before an expected re-entry and flashes out a final warning over United's communications setup...