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Word: shapely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of the road and consults his map. A pair of headlights appears behind the truck; the electrician waves the car on and submerges into his map again. Another pair of headlights appears behind the electrician's truck, but this time there is something peculiar about their shape. Dreyfus waves this vehicle on also, but instead of going around the truck, it goes up and over it--revealing all sorts of blinking, heterochromatic lights in the process...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Close Encounter of an Overblown Kind | 1/6/1978 | See Source »

...surprise shift, Frank J. Weissbecker is appointed chief of the Harvard Police, replacing William Lee, who says he plans to devote himself full-time to "keeping my pitching arm in shape." Best-selling author Sherman Holcombe is appointed acting director of University Food Services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe Dreams | 1/3/1978 | See Source »

...takes hours of work to fluff an Old English Sheepdog into shape for a dog show, like the Eastern Dog Club Show, held last month at Hynes Auditorium and pictured here. Between shows a weekly brushing suffices, but even this can be a painstaking, four-hour job of combing out matted hair in the dog's undercoat. In fact, many owners tire of the excessive grooming, and abandon their sheepdogs to dog pounds and humane societies. Sometimes, the dogs are casualties of divorces and job transfers, or they may be left behind because they grow larger and more rowdy than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shampooch | 1/3/1978 | See Source »

...process now under way succeeds?as is likely, even with occasional disappointments?Americans of every persuasion and party will have reason to be proud. We contributed a military balance which foreclosed a military solution. Our nation, because it was trusted by both sides, helped shape a negotiating process which culminated in the breakthrough of Sadat's historic journey. President Carter has handled the sequence of events growing out of the Sadat initiative with wisdom and delicacy, offering assistance but not intruding on the process of negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: They Are Fated to Succeed | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...President's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who did not like the way the world was running when he went to the White House, the other day rang up Henry Kissinger, one of the fellows who had put the world in the shape it was. Zbig asked Henry out to lunch at the Sans Souci, an eloquent eatery until now shunned by the Carter people. A covenant of mutual admiration was struck just a few feet from the mahogany Venus in the middle of the restaurant. Helped along by a couple of glasses of Almaden Chablis, the two former professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Jimmy, Jerry, Zbig and Henry | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

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