Word: shod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giap is an ascetic man who neither smokes nor drinks, wears baggy, high-collared uniforms, and frequently goes about shod in sandals made from rubber tires. Yet there are streaks of vanity in him. Because of his short stature (5 ft.), he likes to stand on boxes to deliver his speeches. On visits to his troops, he is liable to shuck his uniform, four-starred helmet and all, and show up dressed conspicuously in civilian clothes. He is a ruthless taskmaster, utterly contemptuous of the value of human life-even that of his own troops. "Every minute, thousands...
...creative output was meager by most standards: she published only seven trim collections of poetry and short stories. "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay," she said, "unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damned good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic...
...implement ambitious reorganization plans. Laborites argued that the industry, which ranks fifth in the world (after the U.S., Russia, Japan and West Germany), needed to be modernized and reorganized to stop wasteful duplication. No one could dispute the fact that many of the plants are overstaffed, turn out shod dy, overpriced products, and are losing money. But many critics wonder if nationalization is the solution; Britain's other nationalized industries, notably airlines and railroads, have gotten sicker, not healthier, under state management. Besides, the timing seemed inauspicious for a Prime Minister who is busy wooing the Common Market with...
...problem with GILP is not so much slip-shod administration, though there is some, but rather that the whole plan is tailored to fit political demands and not students' needs...
...Questions of Travel there are only 20 poems, but six of them are egregiously good. One is a 30-page prose poem that contains this spectacular child's-eye view of a horse being shod: "He is enormous. His rump is a brown, glossy world. His ears are secret entrances to the underworld. One of his legs is doubled up behind him in an improbable affectedly polite way. Clear bright-green bits of stiffened froth, like glass, are stuck around his mouth . . and the cloud of his odor is a chariot in itself...