Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrowly over Odin Langen, a big, friendly Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat Roy Wier always has trouble, always wins, and should again. At least two Republican incumbents are in much worse shape: Albert Quie, whose loss in Minnesota's solid Republican south could be a mortal blow to the G.O.P., and Veteran H. Carl Andersen, a leading Benson critic, who has long won against inferior Democratic candidates but this year faces Minnesota's House Speaker A. I. Johnson, who has complete D.F.L...
...great danger to the economy that many people thought it was. After six months of declining, consumer credit turned around in August as people switched to buying more than they paid off. In effect, many a consumer wisely used the recession to pay off debts-and now is in shape to step up buying again...
...over again, this time on the principle that "if the French come against us with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
Bank. Gaither, who helped give the foundation its present shape and direction, announced last May that he would return to his San Francisco law practice. Still in office as the foundation's guiding force and chief executive: able President Henry Heald...
...Stopes and say, 'So what?' We have to place her in her own age, when such things were quite beyond the pale-and that was not so long ago." The times had passed her by, but it was because she had done so much to shape them...