Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Affairs, a policy consultant to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wartime Army intelligence special ist. Heart of Kissinger's analysis: Americans must drastically revise their hopes for Communist redemption, e.g., through disarmament, their fears of all-out war, and their mental clichés about the shape of the next war, if they expect to win out against a relentless, single-minded enemy...
...plant an agent on the staff of the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). Last week he turned up cockily for a San Francisco meeting of the Teamsters' constitution revision committee, there unloaded some of the grand schemes that he hopes will shape the future glory of his union and his own powers...
...Anthony Eden, Churchill to this day (like many Britons) deplores the part the U.N. played in halting the war short of victory, and he has always thought it unrealistic to give as much weight to the opinions of a small power as to a large. Said Churchill: "The shape of the U.N. has changed greatly from its original form and from the intention of its architects. The differences between the great powers have thrown responsibility increasingly on the Assembly. This has been vastly swollen by the addition of new nations. We wish all these new nations well. Indeed we created...
...International Psychoanalytic Congress in Paris, Freud's brilliant biographer, Ernest Jones, 78 (see cut), sat between Princess Marie Bonaparte (lifetime patroness of the movement) and Freud's analyst daughter Anna, reflectively fingered a newly grown beard which was trimmed, by no coincidence, in the shape favored by the late great Sigmund Freud himself...
...money could ever buy the notion of creating such a thing. Eighty-five dollars bought a rocking horse, carved by some boy's loving father, which had doubtless earned over a million dollars in fantasy races. Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering for another one right now, not far away, only nobody wants to climb up to get it without insurance...