Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shortly after they opened their hatches, they were hoisted aboard a helicopter and flown to the deck of the Wasp. Though few would have been surprised if Borman and Lovell had found it difficult to unbend and walk, both climbed unaided from the helicopter, chipper and in remarkably good shape...
...Paper clips, twisted to the required shape, are ideal for holding the three drone reeds of a bagpipe open in the correct playing position...
Farmers in the Gashouse. When Rickey returned from the Army in 1919 to his job as president of the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cards were in sorry shape. The only really good ballplayer on the team was Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby. The club was $175,000 in debt; there was no money for a training trip that spring, not even enough for new uniforms-let alone for buying players on the open market. Rickey's answer was to invent the farm system, gaining control of minor-league clubs, using them as training schools for future stars. At first rival...
Newcomer carved the 8,000-sq.-mi. Clark County district into five sections, assigned a "director" to each to serve as a liaison with his office, gave each principal a free hand to shape his own school toward centrally decided educational goals. He told them to concentrate on what the kids were learning rather than on what was taught and to let others worry about routine problems. "I don't pay my principals $12,-000 to $15,000 a year to see that the windows are clean," Newcomer says. His teachers and administrators are not protected by tenure...
...From Henry Murray, I learned something of the enriching complexity of human needs and Imagination; Riesman increased my understanding of the power of social setting and social pressure to shape men's character and dreams; from Erikson, I gained greater insight into the interweaving of the developmental, the social, and the historical...