Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) meanwhile, said a nomination battle could revitalize the party. "The party has always been in the best shape when the arguments and bickering are gotten out of the way the year before presidential elections," O'Neill said...
Jordan has denied all the Studio 54 charges, and the case is hardly the kind Congress had in mind when it drafted the Ethics in Government Act. The law began to take shape after President Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Congress set out to specify in detail the powers and tenure of a special prosecutor...
...from office by an Indian public outraged by the Emergency and the heavyhanded execution of the sterilization policy promoted by her son Sanjay, Mrs. Gandhi could once more be the "daughter of the nation," successor to her father Jawaharlal Nehru and head of the political dynasty that has helped shape India's destiny for more than 50 years...
...among the minorities. "We knew they were non-Islamic, but they proved to be nonhuman." The Ayatullah also fumed at his appointed government's failure to rule effectively. Said he: "I shall come to Tehran and straighten things out in a revolutionary way if they don't shape...
...Olmecs, Malmstrom speculates the magnetism may have been the magical power by which sea turtles found their way across great expanses of ocean. (He also suggests that the magnetic turtle may hint of Olmec contacts with the Chinese, since they also made their early compasses in the shape of turtles.) As for the Fat Boys, Malmstrom says, their magnetism may represent the life force, with the navel symbolizing birth, and the temple consciousness or knowledge...