Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemon Shape. The sphere itself must be machined with incredible accuracy: no more than five millionths of an inch of error can be tolerated. When it is not spinning, the sphere is not exactly spherical; it is slightly prolate (lemon-shaped), with its equatorial radius (where the metal is thickest) .000226 in. shorter than the polar radius. When it is spinning at 30,000 r.p.m., though, centrifugal force makes the equator bulge just enough to form a perfect sphere...
...Discus. A fulltime computer programmer, husky Al Oerter, 26, the 1960 Olympic champion, was out of shape and practice when he stepped into the discus ring at the Mt. San Antonio Relays in Walnut, Calif. His first heave traveled 201 ft. 5 in. On his second try, he hurled the 4.4-lb. discus 205 ft. 5½ in., breaking his own year-old world record...
...only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each other. That shape am I, I felt, potentially, Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate, if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. There was such a horror of him, that it was as if something hitherto solid within my breast gave way entirely...
...Curbs on credit have cut back buying and wiped out the backlogs of orders; automakers have reduced production by 30% and laid off 3,000 workers. Argentina has attracted 26 auto companies in the past four years, but only twelve of them survive; of those, several are in deperate shape and the four biggest-Kaiser, General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts...
...early marriage. Hortense Calisher attacks head on, overruns each situation with the rush of her own peculiar eloquence. A reader can cheerfully follow David and Liz through the awe of contemplating the baby's hand, the terror of watching its first illness, the slowly emerging awareness of what shape their marriage may finally assume. And in the interplay between the generations lies a lingering dynastic question: How much do we inherit from the past; how much can we disown...