Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Samuelson] didn't affect my race," Kristiansen said. "I was in better shape than...
...understand that the bill will undergo many amendments and alterations before it is finally voted upon, and they are more than willing to listen to student concerns and ideas. I would urge Mr. Baer and other critics not to dismiss the bill out of hand but rather to help shape it into its most positive form. The present bill is not perfect, but if we work together, we can make it more nearly so. The future of the country is at stake...
Whitten says that he swims to keep in shape and stay healthy. But he has another reason for swimming that relates to his studies as a behavioral anthropologist. For a long time, Whitten has been interested in gerontology, which is study of aging...
...worthwhile, then, to spend an evening watching two unappealing characters engage in a verbal slugfest? As in the plays of Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee (two acknowledged Strindberg emulators), the reason is that the struggle takes on an almost metaphysical significance--provided that the actors are in fighting shape. Fortunately, both Goldman and Hurewitz can cut the mustard, and they attack their roles (and each other) with relish...
Skeptics are not so confident. They say schools cannot lead the way to reform, they can only reflect society, not shape it. Some of the harshest criticism comes from Uchitelskaya Gazeta, a pro-reform teachers' newspaper that regularly berates the State Committee for Public Education and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Those two mammoth bureaucracies oversee the nation's school system and train its 4 million teachers. Reformers believe that both block educators eager to try more innovative methods...