Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breed of journeyman fighters, proud of his trade, Old Archie (41 going on 44) is always in shape, always ready to throw punches for pay. So last week he simply packed his bag, flew to Louisville and on Derby Eve treated a race-wise crowd to a professional demonstration of ring-wise skill. Archie's snappy little imperial stayed trim as a movie star's toupee while he gave young (25) Besmanoff a painful ten-round boxing lesson. He won the decision handily...
Last week Dr. Buttrick backed down. On his recommendation, the Harvard Corporation announced: "The Harvard community is today a mixed society. It contains numerous groups with religious loyalties other than those which gave shape to Harvard's ceremonies of public worship." Therefore, "such private services (as weddings and funeral services) may be conducted in Memorial Church by an official of an individual's own religion when this is desired, provided he is willing to do so notwithstanding the church's essentially Christian character...
...needy scholarship lad, that it would most certainly not compete with local Harvard Square merchants, and that it was not directly affiliated with the University. Such talk proved reassuring at the time; but with the passage of months the philanthropic organization has begun to take on the shape of a potentially large scale monopoly, which gives a rather unsavory big business appearance to the academic community...
Onions v. Wine. Though he lost an eye in Indo-China, he was sent to Algeria to take command of the crack Third Colonial Parachute Regiment. A martinet but the idol of his men, Bigeard whipped them into shape by running them as much as 15 miles at a time. He made them shave every day, no matter where they were, doled out raw onions instead of the traditional wine ration because "wine reduces stamina." With all-night marches and sudden paratroop raids, he won every engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says...
...describe the state of high nervous tension in which such a bust is done, Epstein tells how he first roughs in the shape with clay, moves in to observe the eyes including "the exact curve of the under-lid," defines the nostrils so that they seem to quiver with breath, moves on to the lips, cheeks and finally the shoulders and back until he feels "a trembling eagerness of life pulsate through the work...