Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employers are in good shape to take a big strike. Since 1970, when some 74% of the nation's coal was mined by U.M.W. members, vast new strip mines in Wyoming and other Western states, where the U.M.W. has been unable to gain a foothold, have come into production. As a result, the union's share of national production has slumped to less than 54%. And industry has ample coal stocks on hand...
...player and told him his role for the next year. In spring training, his lineup was set, and the starters played together from the first day of camp-honing teamwork, learning one another's strengths and weaknesses. A rigorous running regimen brought the Dodgers' pitchers into top shape and kept them well-tuned. Only two pitchers missed their regular turn in the starting rotation, and then just once. Lasorda, committed to his lineup, never bent, even in the face of the Yankees' slugging lefthanders. Against all the percentages and the prudent practice of every American League manager...
...prodded into final shape by Tolkien's son Christopher, it has become a bestseller practically overnight...
...Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano's ill-fated (luckily) attempt to scrap the $5.3 billion worth of subsidies for construction and rental of low-income housing in favor of providing the same amount to welfare recipients with no strings attached. One reason the South Bronx is in such bad shape, the New York Times reports, is that welfare money is not finding its way into the housing stock...
...essays by various experts, is a landmark in Cézanne studies. There has never been a Cézanne show like this before, and there may never be one again. One is drawn back, beyond the theory, beyond the historical results, into the most radical meditations on space, shape, light and how to paint them...