Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This was a building year," Scherrer stressed. "Next year, we're going to come back in great shape and kill some of these teams...
There are arguments on the other side. Shamir, as Prime Minister, will be more able to shape the public debate, and his agenda is not the same as Peres'. While Likud was junior partner, Peres had special leverage, since Likud had a keen interest in avoiding the break-up of the government...
...vaguely like soccer balls: round with a surface of bumpy triangular facets. Others, particularly the larger bacteriophages, resemble lunar landing modules. The flu virus looks like the head of a Roman mace, with spikes protruding in all directions; herpes viruses are spherical, as is the AIDS variety. Whatever their shape, all viruses have something in common. They are models of biological minimalism, consisting simply of a core of genetic material -- either a DNA or RNA molecule -- and a protective envelope made of proteins (most varieties have a double coat, the outer one consisting either of another protein shell...
Eventually, a bountiful, if not precisely beautiful, 6-5 game came along, leaving one for the title promising everything to everyone. Two runs ahead with an out to victory in the tenth inning, Boston mined 68 years of unthinkable disaster in the shape of infinite singles and First Baseman Bill Buckner's all-time error. For their part, having fallen behind 2-0 and 3-2 in games, the Mets lost some of their hauteur and most of their breath. "I don't care anymore," Third Baseman Ray Knight said, "if we're compared with the 1927 New York Yankees...
...over the next 20 to 30 days, until the ozone content of the hole had dropped by about 40%. Says Team Leader Susan Solomon, a chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.: "We suspect a chemical process is fundamentally responsible," although atmospheric dynamics undoubtedly help shape it. The chemicals could be natural -- volcanic, perhaps -- but CFCs might play a role...