Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Willis rendered his emasculated version of the famous blues, but Ma Rainey sang it as Easy [not C.C.] Rider Blues much earlier. Old blues singers applied the term easy rider to the guitar, which, because of its shoulder strap, "rode easy." Eventually, because of the instrument's feminine shape, easy rider came to mean a woman of easy virtue or a man who prospered by her entrepreneurial activities. There is more to culture, Mr. Dove, than that which revolves 45 times per minute...
What happens now? At the very least, if the strike continues for any length of time, veteran players - even though they are working out on their own - figure to report out of shape, will have missed valuable coaching. If it lasts into the season, owners may play with teams composed entirely of nonunion rookies. Or they may not play at all: Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has gone so far as to order his front office to work out plans for repaying 50,000 season-ticket holders. In either case, there is genuine concern for the damage a protracted strike...
Still, as Lyndon Johnson put it, man must try to "shape his destiny in the nuclear age," and the President solemnly pledged all U.S. resources to help the world move "into the light of sanity and security...
...class. Then the Jack Tinker agency took over the account and decided to try for a touch of wit and realism: a film showing nothing more than a quick succession of people's midriffs being prodded and pushed, or just merrily jouncing along. The message was: "No matter what shape your stomach's in, when it gets out of shape, take Alka-Seltzer." Along Madison Avenue, the film became an instant classic. Among Alka-Seltzer's latest, and best, is the cartoon of a man and his disgruntled but lovable-looking tummy seated in separate chairs, hashing out their troubles...
...Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues that classical bassists could learn much from the free wheeling...