Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caracalla and the Colosseum, into the Piazza Venezia, where Mussolini used to strut and harangue. Even there, only 2,000 umbrella-toting Romans came out to look, and only a few shouted "Viva Ike" (pronounced Eekay). Among the most vociferous were Rome's Communists, who had greeted SHAPE Supreme Commander Ike on his last visit in 1952 with IKE, GO HOME, now waved placards praising THE SPIRIT or CAMP DAVID, and urging SUMMIT IMMEDIATELY, END COLD WAR and LONG LIVE PEACE...
...when dark rumors spread that colleagues of "Daha" himself had plotted the killing. Daha's Finance Minister was under a cloud, and his glamorous female Minister of Housing and Local Government was jailed on charges of complicity in the assassination. Moreover, Ceylon's economy was in bad shape, and Daha's chaotic Sri Lanka Freedom Party was so badly split that the regime survived one no-confidence motion by only one vote. Last week, after 70 days in office, Daha decided it was time to quit, with a capital Q. Dissolving Parliament, Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke...
...laissez-faire policy by the Faculty would just as surely control the shape of Harvard drama as would one of complete direction, down to the smallest detail. It would ensure the continuance of the present, with its virtues and its evils. Clearly, the Faculty Committee on Dramatics does not intend to allow this. Commendably, it seeks to guide undergraduate dramatics so that it better serves the community and the participants...
This Navy squad the varsity hopes to defeat Saturday was top team in the country last year. Like most service athletes, the Midshipmen will be big, tough, and in excellent physical shape...
...Wreck of the Mary Deare (Blaustein-Baroda; M-G-M). It was a dark and stormy night. The Sea Witch, a salvager out of Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge...