Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Huong was hardly in a position to shape that destiny singlehanded. He made one valiant effort to establish his credentials as a peacemaker, offering to send a government minister to Hanoi to open up direct negotiations; the North Vietnamese firmly rebuffed the overture. Huong then made a dramatic, ceremonious appearance at South Viet Nam's National Assembly. Speaking in halting gasps, wearing dark glasses, he told the legislators that it was for them to decide if he should stay in office or make way for General Minh. "Now our ally has abandoned us and we have to defend...
There are no rules in the Cannonball. Anyone is eligible to compete, in any land-based vehicle of any shape or size, at any speed. "God," sighs Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver and one of Cannonball's founders, "the anarchistic barbarity...
WASHINGTON'S ROLE. The speed and strength of the recovery will be crucially influenced by the spending programs now taking shape on Capitol Hill. The White House and Congress are already well launched into a Keynesian experiment of trying to spend the country out of recession. As a result, the budget deficit ballooned to $7.85 billion in March, a record for any month; the red-ink figure for all fiscal 1975, which ends June 30, could exceed $45 billion...
...knows what shape Wall Street will be in after six months or a year of negotiated commissions. If trading volume turns down, price wars could still drive many small firms out of business or into merger. As of now, brokers are guarding their post-Mayday plans as if they were state secrets. All eyes are on the securities industry's General Motors-Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...
...feel the brush of wet leaves across the skin of arms and thighs, or smell the stench of a sodden bear. This extraordinary ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...