Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inguinal rings. Nothing is in the report, of course, about his intelligence or courage or compassion, qualities that finally mean more than anything else in leadership. Yet, after all the yukking is over, there is something reassuring in the knowledge that President and candidate is in such good physical shape. The link between how a President feels and how he decides is too direct to be taken lightly...
...course, a good agent's role is not restricted to payoffs. He can set up appointments between important government officials and company representatives, help the firm chart its investment strategy, advise it on how to shape its bid and funnel back useful intelligence on government needs. All that is wholly ethical, and thus it often is next to impossible to determine how much of the agent's fee is a legitimate business expense and how much is passed on in bribes?particularly because the client companies have good reason for not trying to find out. If they do not know...
...fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn't even know there was a below zero. Man, I'm in worse shape than if I didn't have nothin...
DeGaetani has made a big reputation singing contemporary works partly because of her uncanny ability to navigate faultlessly among unconventional rhythms and unexpected pitch relations. That ability is very much in evidence on this recording as is a comfortable, idiomatic approach to the music. She gives subtle shape to Schoenberg's disoriented vocal lines...
...then my leg was swollen all the way up to my thigh, and I was running a high fever. I continued walking, but on the seventh day, because I was shaking with fever, the nurse put me in the station wagon." In short, the man was in pretty tough shape...