Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the nation's banking system is in good shape for recovery without returning to tight money. Banks have plenty of credit available for businessmen. Despite the Fed's action, free reserves are well above $350 million, where bankers consider that credit begins to tighten. Though short-term interest rates have improved, most bankers expect the prime rate to hold at 3½% for some time because there is still no big jump in industry's demand for money. Business loans, which dropped $1.8 billion in the first half of 1958, show only slight signs of picking...
Deadline Agonizing. To keep up with the news, greying Willard Mullin works only one day ahead. Most of his quizzical heroes take shape in a knotty-pine-paneled den in his home in Plandome Manor, L.I., where Mullin spends hours poring over photos for such details as the shape of football helmets and the piping on baseball uniforms. An agonizer over ideas, he suffers most during the rowing season. "It's just too hard," he says, "to draw eight guys doing the same thing...
That night Lover Boy and his pals continued their short trip to a lost weekend. Next day, none of them was in shape to observe the niceties of small-town life. Frankie wandered into a bar, set them up for the house, then took his own beer outside. By the time he learned that carting drinks from place to place is illegal in Madison, the damage was done. "I teach Sunday School," said one distressed citizen. "There are a lot of Methodists here. What a terrible example that man set for our children...
Early one morning last week 30,000 Japanese, carrying wreaths, incense sticks and bits of white paper folded into the shape of flying cranes, poured into Nakajima Park in Hiroshima on the northern shore of the Inland Sea. The waning moon still hung in the brightening blue sky. There was no wind, and the promise of a hot day. Said one Japanese, looking skyward: "It was a morning just like this when the bomb fell...
...surrounded by a band, singers, guest comedians, skits. But what really gives the Paar show its shape is the L formed by a scarred desk and a well-worn couch. Behind the desk, Jack is barricaded; the couch supports a "panel" of regular or irregular conversationalists. Says Paar: "The show is nothing. Just me and people talking. Historic naturalness. We don't act, we just defend ourselves...