Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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threatening to prosecute it ... attempting to shackle it." Bobby's voice sharpened as he retorted that Congress had already passed laws "telling restaurants how they should shape their piece of oleomargarine...
...Katherine Anne Porter sees human life as almost pure chaos, but says: "The work of the artist-the only thing he's good for-is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning." The book's burden is probably best expressed by Lawrence Durrell. Though he suffers acute physical nausea over his work, Durrell nevertheless declares: "I find art easy. I find life difficult...
While Houk was re-tooling the New York pitching staff into its best shape in recent years, other parts of the Yankee games developed fortuitously. Roger Maris, batting .261 when Mantle departed, began to take Mickey's place as a reliable power hitter. Maris is now hitting .299, with 17 homo runs, and has won numerous games with crucial extra-base hits...
First he kept everyone guessing. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m., Goulart's futuristic presidential palace at Brasília was besieged by Congressmen, Senators, governors, labor leaders, industrialists, generals, and special pleaders of every stripe and shape. To each delegation, Goulart, always smiling, gave his "full support." He was, he said, intending to create a "homogeneous" Cabinet of kindred spirits dedicated to his three-year stabilization plan. Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby...
...suspicious "bump" on the bottom known as Contact Delta. Judged by its size and shape, Delta may well be Thresher's hull, crushed and mangled by water pressure. But getting a good look so that scientists on the surface can make sure has proved to be an elusive problem...