Word: shapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people-to-people style as President and for its international version, which could be called airwave diplomacy. In effect, he was telling Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that he would keep on castigating the Russians for suppressing human rights and telling Americans about foreign policy as it takes shape...
Then, as the Central Intelligence Agency became mired in inefficiency, Schlesinger was tapped for the shape-up operation. As CIA director he immediately began to demythologize the agency. For example, he ordered road signs that identified the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., as THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS to be changed to the correct designation. Staffers were instructed to answer the telephone with their names, not just the telephone number. Schlesinger elevated scientific types to the top jobs and fired some 1,500 of the "old boys"-undercover agents who had come in from the cold to cushy jobs...
...wood is Pierre's real mistress, that thing for which he has challenged the law. Wood that lives and breathes, that squeaks and cracks in the beams of his house, that must be sacrificially burnt in the shape of old furniture that will not sell. Wood stands as a monument in the countryside, whether in the form of a massive tree or in tiny specks of black charcoal. Pierre loves it, is fascinated by the intricacies of its design, the grain that is smooth to the touch, in a way that he never has been by a woman's body...
...breast tumor is still small-no more than 4 cm. (1½ in.) in diameter -doctors first excise the growth in a relatively simple surgical procedure called a lumpectomy. Larger tumors are left in place because their removal would destroy the shape of the breast. Then the radioactive material, usually the shortlived, man-made isotope iridium 192, is inserted into the tumor area. The technique requires extreme care; the iridium must be inserted precisely and in just the right quantity to avoid damage to nearby healthy tissue...
Clean Gene had spent a very busy and tiring day, the smartly-dressed Institute of Politics escorts told me. He had arisen very early in the morning and was in no shape after this 2-hour lecture to answer another barrage of questions. "Don't you dare press him," they threatened...