Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violent, others tractable. On the average, the violent subjects stopped him at a distance of three feet, and showed markedly increasing tension and hostility as the circle shrank. The nonviolent subjects let him approach to half that distance. Moreover, the two areas of insulating space differed radically in shape. That of the violent prisoners bulged to the rear-an avenue of approach that they regarded as unusually menacing. The nonviolent subjects' personal zones were nearly cylindrical...
...Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig...
...then, it is cold and wet on Omaha. From the Channel, the north wind knifes in, and the beach is desolate except for the occasional lonely figure poking for shellfish. As the tide recedes, the ugly debris of war emerges: a black shape here, a jagged something there. The silence is awesome...
...introductory history courses, Western civilization lapsed into a dark night of the soul with the fall of the Roman Empire, to re-emerge in Italy hundreds of years later during the Renaissance. As scholars have long known, that formula was never entirely true, but it was tidy enough to shape the thought of a schoolboy. In the true sense of the meaning of Renaissance, it can be argued, an earlier rebirth occurred at the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th centuries. The age produced in its cathedrals perhaps the greatest architecture yet contrived and, less widely...
...however. Who was down in Houston last week, tracking the Apollo 10 flight in his familiar way, under contract to Britain's ITV? None other than Paul Haney. This time he was not only heard, but seen, although he admits: "I don't have the shape and face for this thing-my face is like a Halloween mask...