Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gwenyver but she's married to his lord, Arthur), its's because modern readers and rewriters faced with the intricacy of Middle English have simplified the idiom to an extreme, ignored the subtleties in style and reduced the work to the lowest common denominator of its plot. In this shape, King Arthur is kid stuff...
...plant breeder from the Ukraine, burst onto the Soviet scientific scene with a beguiling claim: that the inheritance of physical characteristics could be manipulated in plants by their environment. It was an idea totally at odds with modern genetics, which holds that an organism's basic color or shape, say, is passed from one generation to the next by the genes with inflexible regularity (except when they are mutated). But the theory was highly compelling to Stalin; he had become increasingly annoyed at the failure of conventional agricultural scientists to boost the output of the inefficient collectivized farms. Lysenko...
Someone once said the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, go fishing. Don't be taken in by other people's opinions. Shape their opinions instead--about politics, books, movies. About anything you think should come to the public's attention...
...book reads at times like a sort of "Zen and the Art of House-Building," as when Cole says, "Getting your head in shape is the first and most important construction project in any home-building plan." But overall it is concrete. It deals in ample detail with all the information needed to plan and build a house in harmony with its natural environment. It tells how to face it south to get heat from the sun's rays and how best to conserve the heat once it enters the house, how to design the outside to blend with...
...MOST INTERESTING aspect of these arrangements is that the U.S. intelligence services' cooperation with foreign counterparts has generally taken the shape of agreements permitting agents to operate freely in each other's countries. The objects of concern are not only the activities of one's own citizens abroad, but the conduct of governments supposedly regarded as allies. While this sort of concern seems justified given the sort of allies American administrations have been inclined to choose, it is indicative of the perversity of American foreign relations. Not only has the United States chosen allies that it cannot trust...