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Word: shapes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawaii. While 1,000 spectators watched from the beach, Cabell outclassed 349 contestants from as far away as Australia and Peru to win the International Surfing Championships. A trim six-footer (most top surfers are short) who has been at it since he was seven, Cabell keeps in shape during the winter by skiing on snow. The two, he says, are a lot alike: "You go as deep into the hook as possible, swinging to the bottom of the wave, then to the top, then back down again-and shoot through for a long, long ride. The idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing: Shooting the Tube | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...yellow-green of the live females, Lampyris males were attracted to the fake female as readily as to the real. Yellow light excited them even more, while red, green and blue light left them indifferent. Only an overanxious few were attracted by lights of the wrong size or shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entomology: Luring Love Lights | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Meader's act at the time actually had very little Kennedy material in it-only five minutes out of 45-because he was trying to shed his identification with the President and shape a career as a general comedian. Nonetheless, Meader had so thoroughly established himself as the myna bird who sounded like a President that he risked never being accepted as anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Fate of the Myna Bird | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

That's saying something. For one thing, the match is at Ithaca, which Pickett figures is worth "five or ten points" to Cornell. Then too, it's the first meet for the Crimson since before Christmas vacation. (Pickett is confident, however, that his squad stayed in good shape over the holidays...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Matmen May Topple Big Red Saturday | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...past, Harvard has not done too well in the K of C meet. The vacation has usually left the team out of practice, but this year's squad looks in good shape. As Stowell put it, they can be expected to do "reasonably well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Squad to Invade Garden in K of C Meet | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

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