Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three networks sent cameras and sound equipment to record fist-waving parents as they shouted "Never, never, never" along South Boston's streets. Over 900 citizens, mostly white and anti-busing, rode the paddy wagons to the local jails in the first two years after the court order took shape. Over 400 were prosecuted. And, as Commissioner DiGrazia so unproudly points out, none received sentences from mostly neighborhood courts. This show of laxness and reactionary unity in the city's neighborhoods, along with the angry words and deeds that it compounded, turned Boston into an object of fascination and irony...
...pardoned Richard Nixon, the lack of a national constituency for an unelected President, the scathing attacks by Reagan on his leadership abilities, and the absence of great faith in his capacity to cope with the job. Still, Ford does have the considerable advantages of incumbency. As President, he can shape events?send bills crackling up to Congress, make appointments, dominate the news. And Ford?a hearty, unaffected man, a kind of prototypical Midwesterner?has clearly restored both dignity and informality to the White House. People tend to regard him, as one of his aides puts it, as being "safe, secure...
...after the President had resigned: " 'He [Nixon] was crying,' Eastland said. 'He said, "Jim. don't let Jaworski put me in that trial with Haldeman and Ehrlichman. I can't take any more." ' Eastland shook his head. 'He's in bad shape, Leon...
Shaka also developed a battle tactic based on the shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some...
...Private institutions are in the worst shape. Fully 86.6% of them are in the bottom two categories, while only 13.5% of publicly controlled institutions are so placed...