Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting that challenge will take more creativity and boldness than we have used. We should create opportunities for home ownership for low-income families, who can build up equity in apartments they occupy as purchasers rather than as tenants. We must shape the physical design and administrative procedures of public housing to make that possible. We should shift our thinking about management responsibilities to provide for cooperative management or even ownership of publicly-subsidized housing by tenants. We should be wiling to test new methods of producing techniques, scattered-site development, the "turnkey" method of housing built more quickly...
...intended to avoid by coming to England early," said two-man Dave Tyler. "We know that it takes time to become acclimated to the time change and the difference in food and water, and we had figured that by arriving here a week early, we could be in optimal shape by the opening round...
...President replied sharply and ad hominem. While Clifford was at the Pentagon, Nixon observed at his press conference, U.S. casualties were the highest since the war began. All that anyone agreed on in Paris during Clifford's tenure was the "shape of the bargaining table." But then, with what seemed to be uncharacteristic lack of caution, Nixon went Clifford one better on the schedule for troop withdrawal by saying: "I would hope that we could beat Mr. Clifford's timetable." Nixon's aides hastily explained that the President was only expressing a desire and not setting...
...defending champion was wily Tigran Petrosian, the former street cleaner who swept through the ranks of top chess players to win the world title in 1963. The challenger was bold, brilliant Boris Spassky, who closeted himself with a psychologist for six months to get in shape for the match. Their championship contest was only the seventh held in the past 21 years. The fact that once again, as in the previous six title matches, both men were from the U.S.S.R.* attests to the country's domination of the game. In team play, the Soviets have won every World Team...
...private rancors, busy reshuffling peoples and national borders, the Allied statesmen paid little heed to the German scene. Historians have tended to follow their lead. Yet the obscure skirmishes for power that went on in Berlin and Munich may have done almost as much as the Versailles Treaty to shape the future course of Germany and Europe. The far left was pitted against the far right with hapless moderates caught in a dreadful crossfire...