Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some kind of system where Congress is a part of this." Though he got no clear answer, he promised to go even beyond the kind of cooperation that existed in the late '40s and early '50s, when Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Democratic Senator Walter George helped shape White House decisions...
...whites not for racial reasons but because they are convinced that the old people have money stashed away somewhere -hidden in old shoe boxes, tucked under mattresses. The young hoods operate in raiding teams of three or four, or as many as ten. Typically, they have a morning "shape-up" in a local schoolyard to plan what they call a "crib job," because it is as easy as taking money from a baby...
Eggs on Edge. A good egg, concluded a former knitwear manufacturer in Miami, is a square egg. At least when it is hard-boiled and prone in its natural shape to roll across a plate. Thus Stan Pargman set up the Square Egg Co. to make a clear acrylic contraption that encases a cooked, peeled egg and, after ten minutes in a refrigerator, releases it reshaped. Is the world ready for it? Apparently Los Angeles is. When 1,000 of the gadgets went on sale in May Co. department stores there last month, they were snapped...
...simple, wistful yokel who unknowingly ar ranges an assignation with a transvestite. His partner in most of these episodes is a young Italian actress, Laura Antonelli, who, in a more innocent time, might have been called a lollapalooza. Antonelli has the face of a ravished angel, the shape of legend...
Before 1967 a widespread popular movement had been taking shape in Greece, demanding basically the genuine implementation of the democratic principles that were embodied in a conservative constitution but blatantly frustrated by a set of unconstitutional laws which severely curtailed freedoms of organization, speech and political expression. A variety of extreme right-wing groups were allowed to conduct a systematic terror campaign against the Left and Center, which were opposing the emasculation of democratic institutions...