Word: shapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strange and appealing tangent of her own. In a friend's house, for instance, she saw some small Mexican boxes filled with hand-carved painted figures, and she was enchanted. In another house, she was drawn to an old-fashioned coffee grinder that had the shape of a human figure. Finally, in a third house, she saw a bunch of "old hat forms-you know, like big heads...
...Seventh Avenue it is already autumn. Buyers from all over the U.S. are making their seasonal march into garment-district showrooms to rummage through, inspect and buy fall fashions. In a $13 billion industry that survives and thrives on change, the biggest change of all is in the corporate shape of the industry itself. Women's wear, a business of some 4,700 firms in which the mean has always been two or three partners with a $25,000 bankroll, is busy styling a whole new rackful of corporate giants...
What Freeman did know was that more than a million wheat farmers had gone to the polls and, in a vote that may well shape the future of U.S. agriculture, overwhelmingly turned down his plan for high Government supports and strict production controls...
...done last fall. The Russians were unbelievably cooperative and cordial, for amazingly enough, the Cuban crisis was going on at the time. Later, they cooled. When NBC sent an advance print to Moscow, the Soviets sent back quibble-headed rockets. How dare NBC say that Western influences had helped shape the new Palace of Congresses? It's a fact, said NBC; and indeed, the palace looks as if it might have been designed by someone called Mies van der Red. And the lyrics of the choral singing, griped the Russians, could be translated to mean "Long live the Czars...
...markets through a steady population growth belies the gloomy forebodings of Parson Malthus, and modern capitalism's increasing ability to adapt itself readily to change has proved that Karl Marx was a better journalist than prophet. Today's U.S. economy would surprise even those who helped to shape its past. Alexander Hamilton would be shocked by the size of its mounting debt, and Thomas Jefferson would frown on the sprawl of the megalopolitan cities that feed it. The new economy has more competition than Theodore Roosevelt would have deemed possible, and more peacetime Government direction than Franklin Roosevelt...