Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gibson Gives Offbeat Speech," News, Nov. 13 1996) and talking to several friends, I think I have a pretty good idea of what went on. Gibson had no point to make, no themes to discuss and no message to send to the Harvard youths that could grow up to shape the world. Instead he was flippant and crass. He littered his speech with profanities that I don't need to quote here. Now, I don't mean to sound overly pious, but I believe that usually when a man must stoop to using profanities it is because he does...
Berkowitz said Yale's Co-op is in far better financial shape than Harvard's Coop. The Co-op can claim zero debt and a "solid" book business...
...acquire the weapons to fight the second. In the end, they assembled a big-spending war machine fueled by "soft-money" donations to the Democratic National Committee and founded on a rocklike faith in opinion polls. The surveys were used not just to gauge voter attitudes but also to shape Clinton's arguments, test and refine his television commercials and recast his public image. Because swing voters liked outdoorsy vacations, for example, the First Family would take their summer break in Wyoming...
...seeing that Bill Clinton was the most intensely physical flesh presser since Lyndon Johnson (and he's in better shape than L.B.J. was). Clinton plunged in ecstatically--a nightmare for the Secret Service, whose taut, grim faces and darkly frisking eyes contrasted almost hilariously with the happy, dazzled faces of the faithful. Clinton's long, curiously angled fingers (like those of E.T.) reached yearningly, heliotropically, blindly into crowds (swat! swat! on the thigh), from which he emerged flushed and dazed and looking 10 years old. Assembling trivia, one noticed that Clinton, a big man, wears enormous suits that produce...
...plus for us. These are three guys who can help us and they all have abilities up front to score goals," Tomassoni said. "But they've been off for a while and they need a little bit to get back into the grind, get back into game shape, with their timing and everything else and knock on wood, I think we're okay after this game...