Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, frustration over the issue has been vented in a more tempered way, taking the shape of a six-page report by the Minority Students Alliance. The work of students and faculty, the report offers a broad and damning critique of the University's efforts, or lack thereof, to recruit minority professors. But the facts the report highlights are sufficiently shocking to suggest that unless the University heeds the recommendations and acts in a strong manner to rectify the situation, the path of reasoned discourse will soon become less appealing...
Have I reached eighty-five in good shape? In reasonably good shape, yes. My sight and my hearing are not so good as they used to be. What are my complaints, if I can call them that? I think the greatest handicap for me of being eighty-five is that I have lost my surefootedness. (I am surprised that the Shorter Oxford Dictionary does not have this word, but I was reassured to find it in Webster.) I do not now feel happy walking among the coarse hummocks of a grassy hill. I do not like walking in the dark...
...other people see it, a manager is just some out-of-shape girl who hangs out and tries to pick up guys," Collins says. "Being a manager, I don't think the outside community has a good view of what we do. We might be seen as gophers or something, but my teams really respect what I do. That's what makes it all worthwhile...
President Bok and administrators met with students yesterday to work out the collection of a survey of undergraduates that will help shape the College's agenda over the next five years...
...statement, Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson, who directs the program, said this year's fellows "have an unusual opportunity to help shape the intellectual agenda of Harvard's efforts in this relatively new field. I am personally looking forward to working with each member of the group next fall...