Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes clear that the players are just being put through their paces to provide Prose with the ingredients for her morals. These morals are not expecially complex or subtle, and by the middle of the book evoke the feeling of opening an endless nest of Chinese boxes, whose shape and size never vary...
Although the right wing fared better than ever before, it still did not approach the 61 seat total necessary for a majority in the Parliment. And while Meir's Labor alignment lost 8 seats, reducing its number to 50, it remained in far better shape than Likud. This was a serious blow to Begin, since if an election was ever promising for his party, this was it. His failure to make a stronger showing indicates that while many Israelis may want a harder line, they do not want him as Prime Minister. Only a change in the leadership of Likud...
After nearly four months as U.S. energy chief, William Simon could use any respite that a lifting of the oil embargo would bring. When he stepped in, he was almost universally hailed as the tough decision maker who would finally whip the nation's faltering energy policies into shape. The honeymoon could not last, and it has not; Simon now is getting a barrage of criticism, some of it astonishingly bitter...
...hundred pounds of beef, 400 lbs. of fish, some 100,000 lbs. of real-life Newport socialites hung with $1 million worth of Cartier carats, and a mound of butter carved into the shape of a lamb by an 80-year-old nun? A Scarlett O'Hara-style search for a movie heroine and screen tests for 75 antique automobiles? Five 40-ft. glass and steel panels removed from a New York showroom in order to put a $100,000 Rolls-Royce on display? Great Scott...
...months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service. A tall, rangy man who had to wear an eye patch because of a fishing accident in 1949, Douglas helped shape, and as ambassador helped carry out, the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Western Europe...