Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakup was presumably wrenching to both parties. Yet at an Ottawa reception the night before the announcement, according to one of the Prime Minister's aides, Trudeau "looked the best he's looked this year. He's in fine spirits and great shape...
...warm ovation, Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall, who had commanded all of America's military forces during the war, bowed, accepted his doctor of laws degree and sat down again. In his pocket, ticking off the day like a hidden bomb, was a speech whose content would shape a new world era and dwarf by its magnitude all the fame that Marshall had so far won. That afternoon, when his turn came to make a "few remarks" during the traditional alumni ceremonies in front of Memorial Church, Marshall quietly took out his speech and read...
...better shape, the 240-lb. man who can pick up the front end of a Honda Civic or the 89-lb. woman who can run the Boston Marathon in 2:48:33, as 41-year-old Miki Gorman did this year? The zealots of the new fitness say, with rueful shakes of their heads, that if the weight lifter can't run a mile and three-quarters in twelve minutes (assuming he is under 30), he can't claim to be in excellent shape, and that if he can't trundle at least one mile in that...
Meza was cheerful. Five years ago, he said, he was overweight and out of shape. "I picked running because I'm not athletic at all. I couldn't do anything else. In Chile I got kicked out of soccer class." Now, down from 180 Ibs. to 145 Ibs., he covers at least 15 miles a day. "It's great," he said...
...cringed. The cast was off, and his kicking foot looked in terrifyingly good shape. I knew he would be listening to my every word, hoping for traces of a broad Harvard "a" that would testify to my slide into spiritual degeneracy...