Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they share his distorting lenses. While Lamont might be scribbling away unheard in his high-rent New York apartment, the deans and university bureaucrats who really wrote the book, by talking with Lamont and by providing him with students to interview, are making almost all the decisions that shape out lives. People like Derek Bok and Archie Epps, they're still out there...
Agriculture is in even worse shape than the mining industry. In southern Zambia, farming has been disrupted by guerrilla warfare. In the Gwembe Valley, crops are rotting in local cooperative stores because nobody wants to collect them. Most of the preindependence white farmers have left Zambia, and agricultural output has dropped accordingly. Zambia's farmers no longer grow tobacco, once a flourishing crop, nor do they produce as much corn as the country needs...
...sepia-tinted photograph in a color-television age, a throwback to the time when ballplayers wore baggy wool flannel uniforms and played cards on lonesome train rides through the night. His square shape and scowling countenance served him poorly off the field. He could deliver the winning hit but not the winsome quote, and thus suffered in the game of personality hype, the game that, sadly, often seems to count most...
...music of these islands is ghostly and black, echoing over hundreds of years right up to the present. The islands have what Boston could never tolerate on its own landscape. Spectacle Island--so named for its bifocal shape--housed a leper colony during the 18th and 19th centuries. The most advanced cases of leprosy were dispatched to the island, a natural quarantine. Later, a glue factory located itself on the island, and later yet, a huge dump, where much of Boston's sewage and trash was left for much of this century. An island-wide, spontaneous-combustion fire devoured...
...general I thought the building was in good shape," Lorraine S. Wade, director of tenant relations for Harvard, said. "A lot of work had to be done in individual units which we had no way of knowing about," Wade said. "Tenants complained to the superintendent, but not to us," she added...