Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sergeevich Khrushchev beamed his golden smile into the radiotelephone that connected him with the heavens. He was talking to Russia's latest space heroes, three cosmonauts whirling high above the Black Sea resort where their leader was vacationing. He congratulated them warmly, told them to keep in good shape for the huge reception planned on their return to Moscow, then uttered an eerily prophetic goodbye. "Here is Comrade Mikoyan," Nikita chortled. "He is literally pulling the telephone from my hands. I don't think I can stop...
...lagging U.S. space program. Yet for all the novelty the flight involved, from the moment the tall, silver-sided rocket with its over sized new space capsule left the launching pad in Kazakhstan, all seemed to go well. The commander radioed that all three passengers were in good shape, that all equipment was working normally. Soon the smiling faces of two of the cosmonauts appeared on live TV. While orbiting over the U.S., where their craft was tracked by U.S. radars, they radioed good wishes "to the industrious American people." It Pays to Believe. U.S. space scientists had nothing...
Dave Poe and Ken Boyda, both of whom missed the Columbia game with injuries and were used sparingly against Cornell, should be at top speed this week. That would put the squad in perfect shape except for quarterback Tom Bilodeau, who suffered a few bruises in the sideline rumble that broke out after Dockery's touchdown...
...course, was skin. It fit fairly well, withstood wear and tear (scuff marks, lipstick traces, even wine stains vanished in a jiffy), but wrinkled like crazy: a knee bend, for example, caused the stuff to stretch 45%, a shoulder shrug, 16%. After as little as 30 bending, shrugging years, shape was sure to go. Fortunately, skilled technicians got to work on the problem, finally turned up with an ANo. 1 solution called polyurethane elastomeric yarn (spandex) that stretches like skin, leaves no telltale bags or sags, and springs back into good-as-new condition without benefit of plastic surgery...
Such was his fame in England that Canaletto's patrons persuaded him to stay there and paint their murky land. His precise, atmospheric views of London, painted in the 1740s and '50s, helped shape English landscape painting, lured later artists such as Turner and Whistler to Venice to seek new understanding of light and water. But the essential music of Venice, if not its counterpoint-sun-stippled plazas, majestic palaces, bustling, brightly clad people-always escaped them. In later life, painting steadily until his death in 1768, Canaletto essayed fanciful variations on his theme with almost surreal capriccios...