Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Very Damn Rude." The portrait arrived back at the Hurd ranch-c.o.d. Nevertheless, Mrs. Johnson persuaded Hurd to try a smaller portrait, 30 in. by 36 in., based on the President's favorite photograph. The picture was taking shape when, to Hurd's dismay, he discovered that "that photograph was in every little bureaucrat's office in America-including the post office in San Patricio. I couldn't plainly copy such a picture. I lost interest." However, he finished the large portrait and shipped it off to Washington. Several months later he got a letter...
...Shape of Tomorrow...
Even as they slog through the lave pits of childhood and adolescence, most youths are forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt...
Sato's one consolation is that the op position parties are in no better shape than his own Liberal Democrats. The far-left Socialists, who held 141 seats in the lower house, still call for class warfare and complete nationalization of all Japanese industry, which hardly endears them to the country's increasingly prosperous electorate. The middle-of-the-road Democratic Socialists, who held 23 seats, are simply too vacillating to generate wide support. And the neo-Buddhist Clean Government Party, which will be running in its first general election, is too new and too limited...
...same old story after vacation every year--the track team gets a little out of shape. But that shouldn't matter too much today when the boys meet weakling Boston College at Briggs Cage...