Word: shaper
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...most resourceful leader in the C.I.O. His ability is not questioned, but many labor (and industry) leaders deplore his tendency toward labor statesmanship, a phrase sometimes used in labor circles with a heavy charge of sarcasm. Though he can be intensely practical when necessary, Reuther is an inveterate shaper of far-reaching "Reuther plans," which to most labor leaders seem to deal with matters outside labor's province. His tendency is to make a specific union issue a springboard for broad social and economic questions, e.g., the 1945 negotiations between the U.A.W. and General Motors, during which Reuther based...
Other outstanding violinists include Sander S. Shaper '54, former concert master of the Midwood High School Orchestra, Leonard M. Marcus, '51, concert, master of the University of Wisconsin Orchestra before he transferred, and Marguerite Welsh, Wife of a graduate student and former concertmasters of the Vassar Symphony Orchestra...
...heavyweights in the Republicans' stable. By mixing work with three weeks of lolling under the Key West sun, the President and his advisers hoped to sharpen up for a big tour that will take him across the U.S. and back in May. Just about every trend spotter, word shaper and evil-eye caster on the President's staff was on hand to condition the champ and polish up his footwork...
...background and beliefs-which are helpfully summarized in Critic John L. Sweeney's introduction to this volume of poetry and prose. Like many another of England's poets-Donne, Herbert, Vaughan-Dylan Thomas is of Welsh lineage. He is also what the old Welsh bards called a "shaper"-one who refashions and revivifies the language bequeathed him by the poets of the past...
...beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...