Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that point," Campbell said, "we'd lost two but I felt encouraged." The reason? "We had more guys than last year, and we were all in better shape...
John Kennedy decided he would relieve the national melancholy precipitated by the Soviet Union's outrages in Berlin by suggesting Americans get in better shape by taking 50-mile hikes like Marine recruits. Leg cramps and heart seizures became epidemic as thousands of flabby citizens answered the call. Alarmed, Kennedy appealed for restraint...
...jobs are just the beginning. Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political Studies, believes the time is ripe "to assure that blacks have an equal chance to help shape the nation's policies and programs. A Cabinet post and a special assistant or two will not suffice. The need now is to integrate the policymaking process and to conquer yet another frontier of segregation...
...possible, therefore, that the show will turn out to be just another passing fancy and not the shape of things to come. Or that it will merely settle into a prosperous rut, another gimmicky private-eye show with a following that keeps it safely anchored somewhere in the middle of the ratings. About all that, it is too early to speak. Right now, the last word must belong to Producer Spelling, in whose voice can be heard television's truest, bottom-line tones. Refusing to argue with the show's detractors, he utters what television people all believe...
...sympathize with Mr. Bok's desire to do it himself, because the president of a university has very few trump cards to play in the determination of the shape of his faculty," Blacklow said...