Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friends of Children--Vietnam, made preparations before the airlift to handle a large number of children unassigned to parents if they came to the state. Working with Children's Hospital, they set up a Vietnamese clinic to screen the children for disease. "The children arrived in horrible physical shape," Williams said. "The spectrum between healthy and unhealthy was very small." Local doctors, nurses and dentists volunteered, she says, to treat everything from syphilis to scabies...
...space they do have is often in poor shape. A report drawn up in 1972 by the Visiting Committee on the Fogg states. "The physical building has not been touched in 44 years and much of it is shoddy and uncommodious." Due to the lack of atmospheric controls, there has been a general rotting away of the museum's collection. "Anything that is really critical can be gotten to," says chief conservateur Arthur Beale, but there is a two year backlog of work in all four laboratories"--painting, objects, paper and research...
...fifties--means to lose the possibility to do creative work for many years. Ivan Passer once related how eager he was to start shooting his first American movie, Born to Win (1971). He said that filmmaking had one thing in common with athletics: you have to practice, keep in shape, keep in touch with the craft. Thus to lose the possibility to shoot for many years is a total disaster for a director. And even if in ten years (to be optimistic) a "thaw" comes in Prague, and new conditions for art appear, it is too late...
Even opposition critics find it hard to fault Schmidt's handling of the economy. Since taking over from Willy Brandt last May, Schmidt, 56, has whipped the Cabinet into shape, told off his party's left-wingers, and zipped through the Bundestag a tax-reform program that had been stalled for years...
...game). He charges around the court so hard that he sometimes bursts the seams of his size 14½ sneakers. During a recent game with the Denver Nuggets, officials had to stop play for 20 minutes while workmen replaced a steel rim that McGinnis had bent out of shape with one of his slamming dunk shots...