Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conspicuous Failure. Powerful opposition to federal regulation has already begun to take shape. While conceding the need for better pollution control, spokesmen for the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute have all emphasized their preference for local standards and supervision...
...weekend trip to Denver then barely held on fror a 7-6 win over Brown, it appeared that the heavily worked Terriers might be hockeyed out. But they shattered Yale's five-game winning streak, 8-3, at New Haven Saturday to serve notice that they are in top shape to defend the trophy they won last year for only the second time in the 14 years of competition...
...patriotic and ruggedly athletic. At West Point, he starred in soccer, set an Academy record in the 400-meter hurdles, just barely missed qualifying for the 1952 U.S. Olympic team. Zealous when it came to physical fitness, White jogged a couple of miles every morning to keep in shape, shinnied a 40-foot rope in his backyard on weekends, usually bicycled the three miles between his Houston home and the NASA Space Center. To his fellow astronauts, it came as no surprise when White took along a gold cross, a St. Christopher medal and a Star of David...
...atmosphere was giddily festive, the conclave itself was marked by sober misgivings about the Michigan Governor's ability to speak out clearly on major domestic and international issues. As some of Romney's support began to erode, Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s perennial workhorse, began to shape up as its potential dark horse as well. Clearing the Track. The former Vice President had supposedly disavowed politics for six months following the G.O.P.'s election victories last November. Nonetheless, his backers came out in the open to promote the notion that Nixon, a dedicated party performer...
...million years ago-in the Upper Miocene. In the hopes of finding their ancestors, Leakey in 1965 began a search of museum drawers and showcases for bone fragments of the Lower Miocene-and came across the familiar Sivapithecus and Proconsul remains. Applying 14 standard tests of the shape and size of jawbones and teeth to these long-ignored bone fragments, Leakey concluded that their characteristics were definitely more manlike than apelike, and reclassified them as Kenyapithecus africanus. Unlike the rectangular, one-rooted molars of apelike creatures, for example, the Kenyapithecus' molars were triangular and had two roots. Its incisors...