Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of those intercepted and analyzed, the explosive was a powder, probably TNT; in others the charges were two thin strips of plastique explosive scarcely five inches long. Developed in World War II, plastique is a mixture of Hexogen, TNT and rubber compound that can be molded into any shape and is safe and stable until detonated. It can even be rolled sheet-thin to look like typewriter paper, written on, rolled or folded...
...second time in eight months, China's aging leaders will gather this week at the now familiar willow-edged airport outside Peking to greet a traveler on a historic mission. Last February the U.S. President stepped out of Air Force One and totally changed the geopolitical shape of the world. This time the plane will be a Japan Air Lines jet carrying the leader of a country whose rivalry with China scarred Asia for the better part of the past century. The arrival of Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Peking, said China's Premier Chou...
...billion, economic growth might slow by the fourth quarter. Greenspan adds that in the still more unexpected event of a McGovern victory, the confidence of managers and stock market investors could be shaken enough to produce a slowdown in the fourth quarter and beyond. Even then, the shape of the year would not be affected much: businessmen have already made too many purchasing and expansion commitments...
Despite his clear belief that revolutionary movements are changing the shape of world politics. Landau mouths the old cliches out "bipolar world" Regarding developments since the nineteenth century, he writes uncategorically. Where multipolarity existed before, bipolarity between the Soviet Union and the United States is the central feature of current international relations." Landau is similarly two-faced in his distinctions between Kennedy and Nixon foreign policy. In a cogent passage, he recalls the "chauvinism" of the Kennedy Administration which pledged "it would fight anywhere and at any time to achieve its goals." The Nixon Administration is less idealistic: it will...
...turned into a sightless, 6-ft., 155-lb. female breast. "At one of my ends," says Kepesh from his hammock in a New York hospital, "I am rounded off like a watermelon; at the other I terminate in a nipple, cylindrical in shape, projecting five inches from my 'body...