Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst victims are subject to terrifying sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...first glance, the two bombs appeared to be nothing special. One looked like a blunt-nosed torpedo; the other had the shape of a bulky, overweight blimp. So why, until last week, had the State Department suppressed all pictures of them for 15 secretive years...
...National Council was first assembled ten years ago, and glued together out of pieces very different in shape and size and function ... I feel that the most important accomplishment of these first years may well have been that the council has stayed together-that the glue has had a chance to set. At the same time it is true-both with the foot stool and with the National Council-that there comes a time when the clamps must be taken off and we must have the courage to put the instrument to the full use for which it was fashioned...
...municipal parks and seaside beaches, the newest sports craze in the U.S. is the old game of touch football. The sport that once belonged to the nation's scurrying small fry has suddenly been borrowed by grownups with a yen to work off energy, ease aging legs into shape, sweat out a hangover, or realize Mittyesque dreams of gridiron glory. Touch has lately become an obsession with college kids, wheezing gaffers, giggling secretaries-and, of course, the entire clan of President-elect John F. Kennedy, who, according to old opponents, possesses "the best passing arm in the family." Says...
...young Crimson wrestling squad upset an unexpectedly weak Williams team Saturday with a resounding 22-8 victory. After an unimpressive showing last week at M.I.T., coach Bob Pickett worked his crew into shape and came up with wins in six of the eight matches at the Crimson's second dual meet of the season...