Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much for a nation, or a woman. De Gaulle had even been warned. During World War II, when France had been humiliatingly crushed in a six-week Nazi blitzkrieg, De Gaulle almost single-handed kept the idea of France alive. Whenever Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin tried to shape the war without due consideration of France, they were met with De Gaulle's fierce obduracy. At war's end De Gaulle headed the provisional government. But within two years, because of party squabbles, he resigned his post and, hurt but still in love, retired to his rural retreat...
Though the Derby may shape up as a classic contest of Beauty v. Beast, few touts with a memory are willing to concede that it is strictly a match race. There have been Big Two Derbies before, such as Candy Spots v. No Robbery in 1963, and Damascus v. Ruken in 1967. None of those favorites won. This year, at least half a dozen outsiders could make history repeat itself, including Dike, a 6-to-l shot by virtue of his victory in the $110,900 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and Arts and Letters, who bested Top Knight during...
...Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig...
...however, the influence is one-way. People cannot change objects as they can change other people; objects resemble in order to mirror, to comment. Sirk's characters react at crucial moments against this unchangeability-with-mockery by smashing object (Fyodor's violin). But they can only destroy them--never shape their surroundings to themselves. Indeed, as characters are worn down by frustration of their wishes and tensions between contrary desires, objects come more and more to shape their actions...
Free Will, it can be seen, is a concept whose existence depends on an individual's not knowing what "the future" will be like. (For Tralfamadorians, the future can be defined as those moments whose determining conditions are taking shape in the moment presently being visited. We say the future comes "after" now.) If we can understand time to be an entity that always exists in its entirety, then the irritating concept of free will dissolves into pleasant nothingness...