Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gloria," protested Fein, "the trunk is very heavy." Gloria called two friends-Geri Boxer, 22, who described herself as a copywriter with a psychology degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and David Broudy, 32, a onetime cabbie and hairdresser. Gloria then sent Fein home "because he was in pretty bad shape," drove to the Harlem River with the others and pushed the trunk in. "There was a thump and a splash," she said. When the body surfaced, there was an even bigger splash...
Prime Minister Menzies' government has tried to shape up defenses. Standing by its Commonwealth and SEATO commitments, Australia reinforced its expeditionary force in Malaysia, increased the number of Australian military advisers in South Viet Nam to 60. To bolster home defenses, the government ordered 100 supersonic Mirage jets from France and 24 TFX (now known as the F-111A) fighter-bombers from the U.S., plus three U.S.-made missile-firing destroyers and four British Oberon submarines. Last week Menzies carried the beef-up further, announced the reinstatement of the draft, which had been dropped...
...role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have. These are the excellences of our craft...
...There were local designers, but they tended to turn out clothes for the Queen, or for anyone interested in dressing like her. All this has been changed by something called "The Chelsea Revolution," a group of young designers, all 30 or under, who have done more to change the shape of empire than anyone since Wellington...
...stand as absolutely assured, solid, immovable. In the midst of the uncertainty and change which prevails around and within him, he captures forever on canvas the transitory element in himself. Permanence, solidity, self-confidence--to these qualities, so precious and so rare in everyday existence, he give lasting shape...