Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this month or as late as October. "Once we get started, we will have a lot of bounce-back," predicts Okun. "By the fourth quarter, I am willing to bet we will see very strong gains." William Tongue, a University of Illinois economist, expects the recovery to take the shape...
Radcliffe's varsity lights will shape up with Mizzy Stokes at stroke, Antoinette LaFarge at seven, Eugenie Steele at six, captain Dottie Kent at five, Janet Mazur at four, Margaret Hunt at three seat, Roxanne Malenbaum at two and Marsha Cline at the bow. Barbara Pierce will handle the coxswain duties...
...their participation, indeed of their thoughtfulness, for the benefit of Harvard's future, when they already occupy 10 or more equally engrossing positions. Moreover, I also fear that by virtue of the distance in time from their student experiences, they are less eligible to fashion the policies that will shape Harvard University in the 1980s and 1990s...
...shock was to the U.S., the Administration made it worse. It reacted in a schizophrenic mood, alternating between recrimination and caution. Behind the scenes, factions were vying to shape President Ford's public position. Officials close to Henry Kissinger felt that the Secretary of State's historic reputation was at stake and urged Ford to defend the Nixon-Kissinger Viet Nam policy that had produced the 1973 Paris accords, for which Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize. They wanted the major blame pinned on Congress for its alleged failure to live up to those accords by cutting back...
...Chiang might have called it My Destiny. He saw little distinction between his own fate and that of the giant, sprawling, poverty-stricken land that he ruled for just over 20 years. All his life, the lean and ambitious soldier fought bravely, though in the end vainly, to shape history to his personal specifications. When he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 87 in his exile capital of Taipei, he was still clinging to the sacred fiction that it was he and nobody else who was the legitimate father of all of modern China...