Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long-Range Health. The settlement leaves both industry and workers in good shape. During the strike, the mills have substantially reduced high inventories, will probably run for the rest of the year at full-capacity level. Many of the strikers had two or three weeks of paid vacation coming, and the companies are allowing them to charge it off against time lost by the strike. With overtime, the strikers will probably be able to make up the rest of their wage loss. On the other hand, the steelmakers will probably raise prices, adding somewhat to the inflationary pres sures...
...reasons, the habit of sucking the blood of nations and stealing their rights. As for France and the vulgarity of the French Foreign Minister, I will say nothing. I leave it to the Algerians to give them a lesson in good manners." Then, in an ominous hint at the shape of things to come, he said: "I strongly warn the imperialist countries that their evil games will be reason for disturbing free navigation in the Suez Canal." Supplement to Sanctions. By week's end the Western powers had begun to do something besides stammer. Acting...
...This is being done with the Temple of Mithras that was found not far from the blockhouses (TIME. Oct. 4, 1954). Its stones are waiting in a basement, carefully identified, while workers push construction of Bucklersbury House, a new business block. When it is finished, the temple will take shape again in the building's courtyard...
...Peace. Some U.S. military leaders, especially in Army circles, argue that wars would then be conducted with "conventional" weapons in the style and on the scale of World War II. Others contend that there would be open season on brush wars of Korea's size and shape, with limited use of the tactical atomic bomb. Pundit Walter Lippmann suggests that guerrilla warfare might become the only thinkable type of conflict. Another possibility: since no nation could be expected to submit to ultimate defeat through the attrition of a series of limited wars, the tendency would be for such wars...
...Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make his ,lonkey, Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon shape that rates a guffaw, yet carries over an unabashed tribute to mammalian protectiveness and love that can be enjoyed long after the laughter has subsided...