Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fused Vertebrae. The surgeons cemented the two parts of the cast together and removed the turnbuckle. To make doubly sure of holding the shape, they affixed a curved iron bar to serve as a flying buttress on the right side. By this time they were about ready for a tricky piece of surgery they call "fishing through the ice." Last week they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast...
...five years, but last week was special; he was making his first appearance with the New York Philharmonic since his appointment as its new permanent conductor and musical director. Lennie spent the weekend whipping Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra into final shape for its U.S. premi...
...those organization abbreviations in your Dec. 16 NATO article: just imagine a flying SACEUR slipping into SHAPE...
...time approached for his return to Paris, Ike's nostalgia bubbled over in an off-the-cuff speech to a small crowd of SHAPE personnel and their families. Said he: "I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young-homesickness. I must acknowledge that after 40 years of wearing a uniform it would be strange if I felt quite as natural with my civilian hat as I did with my military cap. And I want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going...
...emphasis on price and style was a major preoccupation for the host of new men moving up to top rank. At year's end Westinghouse, whose "Shape of Tomorrow" pushed its sales of major appliances up 15% v. a 4% drop for the industry, rewarded Executive Vice President Mark W. Cresap Jr., 47, one of "Shape's" prime movers, with the presidency; longtime Boss Gwilym Price remained chairman. Every industry looked for new competitive talent. To exploit new markets at home, John L. Burns, 49, took over at Radio Corp. of America as Frank Fosom neared retirement; with...