Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only on the final Saturday that the possibility of a breakthrough began to take shape. While Begin observed the Sabbath, Carter met with Sadat for 2½ hours. Once sundown came, Carter and Begin met for 4½ hours. By that time their negotiators had narrowed success or failure for the summit to just two issues: the Palestinians and the Israeli Sinai settlements...
Cone Mills of Greensboro, N.C., the world's largest producer, now runs its denim looms only four days a week instead of six. J.P. Stevens shut down half the 565 looms at its denim-making factory in Rock Hill, S.C. Foreign manufacturers are in much worse shape; they jumped heavily into denim a few years back when sales of the U.S.-made original began to soar. Hong Kong turns out a fifth of the denim it once did, Mexico is down to one mill, and Venezuela is out of the business altogether...
...gourmet is someone who would not fly from New York to Nebraska simply to check out a steakhouse rumored to serve beef in the rough shape and size of a softball. A gourmand is someone who would. Author Calvin Trillin did. His conclusion: "I've tasted worse steaks." Trillin, however, has an edge on his fellow gluttons, whom he describes as Big Hungry Boys. A peripatetic correspondent for The New Yorker for the past eleven years, he has an excuse to roam the country at will, eating, sometimes quite literally, off the fat of the land. A writer...
Silences is in part a book of ifs. If I had had those years to observe and write and express what was in me... If the factory laborer with latent artistic talent didn't have to toil ceaselessly... If writers didn't have to shape their work to the demands of those who can pay them...
...Core that has attracted so much attention still exists only on paper; students here are still waiting to see how it will shape up. Although Harvard has issued a report outlining the requirements in the Core and the principles behind it, the Faculty and administrators still have much work ahead of them before the Class of '83, the first class required to fulfill any Core requirements, will begin taking courses next fall...