Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whipping the Woods. Next day Palmer was off form-for Palmer. Frowning and shaking his head, he missed putt after putt, finished the first nine two over par. But he whipped his woods and irons into shape, finished with a respectable 73, one over par. That was good enough for the lead-but only because of an odd penalty to another bright young pro, Dow Finsterwald, 30. Finsterwald, with a 69 for the first round and a 70 for the second, would have been a stroke ahead of Palmer. But after sinking a second-day putt, he started to take...
...orderly and loyal to the government. They understand that we are thinking of their interests." In eight years as Minister of Native Affairs in the regimes of Daniel Malan and Johannes Strijdom, genial Dr. Verwoerd fashioned South Africa's tough segregation decrees. Using such criteria as the shape of noses and kinkiness of hair, his system classifies blacks, mixed-blood coloreds and Asians by race, then allocates to each a rigid, underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink-can be determined by government officials. The editor of the National Party...
Both fledgling nations want to remain in the French Community, but the French Constitution at present provides that any member desiring independence must leave the Community. De Gaulle is expected to ask for an amendment that will transform the Community into the shape of a loose alliance of free countries along the lines of the British Commonwealth. Likely target date for completion of the constitutional rejiggering and the formal proclamations of independence: next June...
...better himself, the critic decided that he belonged onstage: "Like missionaries who go among the savages and must be prepared to face being eaten, we independent newspapermen and honest politicians should be prepared for the worst." Peru's economy was in such sorry shape that the sol had dropped from 19 to the dollar to 31.5. The simple act of making Beltrán Premier checked the decline. Then Beltrán stopped the currency printing presses that La Prensa had long cartooned as a loathsome, hairy-legged machine. He ended food subsidies, tightened tax collections, dropped surplus bureaucrats...
...Shins," he said. "The biggest menace is sore shins. Anyone can train a horse. But to win, you've got to have a horse that's in shape. That's the only secret there...