Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserted Nixon. Then the Senate proceeded to pass a modest bill providing medical aid only for "needy" old people, in a joint federal-state program to be administered by the individual states. After a few nicks by a Senate-House conference, the bill got through the House in fair shape to escape a presidential veto...
...Senate chambers last week, eager to be somewhere else, and they were getting away whenever they could from a congressional rump session increasingly vituperative and unproductive. August is usually the quiet month when the candidates organize the fall's storms. But already the campaign was taking shape, and an unexpected...
Awakened at last in 1922, after a court librarian rediscovered its past, the theater was found to be still in good shape. Its collection of null 18th century sets, ranging from trompe I'oeil farmhouses to ornate court scenes, is the world's largest. The wooden stage machinery, designed by the Italian master Donate Sopani, is so flexible that a four-man windlass team can make a complete scene change in ten seconds. In the 40-odd rooms where actors and singers once lived while the royal family was in residence at Drottningholm, the original hand-painted wallpaper...
...interpreter, the two brothers met across a table and began, awkwardly at first, to chat. The bishop said he shared a cell in the hospital section with a 40-year-old Chinese who could speak English, that he received Chinese English-language papers, that he tried to keep in shape with morning calisthenics-"we did the same exercises with Papa." No, he had not been allowed to say Mass since his arrest 22 months...
...Babe Ruth sometimes used bats weighing 48 oz. But styles have changed, and players now prefer lighter bats that they can swing more quickly. The Cubs' Ernie Banks uses a 31-oz. bat; the Giants' Willie Mays never goes heavier than 33 oz. The shape has changed too. Only White Sox Second Baseman Nellie Fox still uses a thickhandled bat; the rest prefer a slim handle. H. & B. keeps an index of the types of bat it has made for some 40,000 major league players (many of whom have Louisville Sluggers named after them), often gets wires...