Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the toll barriers at Ripley, New York. This time, it would all be different. Champagne knew that the Harvard guy was out of the Navy. He had sent him a copy of his separation papers. He just hoped that the Harvard guy's bank account was in good shape. The names Jauron, Doyle, Hennings, Green and Perschel were each worth about $20, Champagne figured...
...Withstanding the Nixon landslide remarkably well, Democrats managed to keep control of both houses of Congress, and they are in far better shape than the Republicans were after the 1964 Goldwater fiasco...
...electricity built up by walking across carpets and other floor coverings. Greenwood knew that static electricity may be generated wherever a shoe rubs against a rug. His research had further established that the charge can persist for hours (particularly on some synthetic rugs in dry air) and that the shape of the charged area conforms to the shape of the sole and heel that created it. Those facts were of particular interest to Greenwood, who had also done forensic research for the Home Office-which has overall control of the police service in England and Wales. Could the distinctive electrical...
Greenwood's technique is obviously cruder than fingerprinting, and could provide only an indication of the size and shape of a criminal's shoes. Still, the Home Office, which encouraged Greenwood in his research, has hopes that the technique will prove useful to detectives. Electrostatic shoeprints, for instance, could give some hint of the size and sex of a culprit, reveal how many people were involved in a caper and even allow police to trace their movements...
...spiral of hide and seek with a black robed, virgin-like bust appearing in whole and in cut sections against greyish-white rectangular backgrounds that overlap and revolve around the center. She takes a negative and pasts up a college of this repeated image. For her, this black shape becomes an icon, indestructible, despite efforts to cut it up and change its positions...