Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even that automatically generated by competition for a unique prize. Nixon thought of Rockefeller as a selfish amateur who would wreck what he could not control, a representative of the Establishment that had treated him with condescension. Rockefeller considered Nixon an opportunist without the vision and idealism needed to shape the destiny of our nation...
This is a city where high school principal must go and act like a politician in order to get the politicians to act like leaders, to help shape the city's character, to protect all of its citizens. Fortunately, Jerome Winegar is one person who has not been so stupefied by violence and hatred that he has forgotten how and when to cry out. But South Boston High is Winegar's only domain, and South Boston is merely a very small piece of a very large tragedy...
...Moses agreed SHS guides might introduce students to house life, but feared the guides would try to offer academic or personal counseling which they were not qualified to provide. "We do not want students doing what they are not supposed to do," Moses announced soon after SHS took shape...
Rogers says his major skill, and the key to running down Stevens' directors, is organization, not labor leading. He claims his founding of a Vista anti-poverty group called "Human Love in Action," and his successful drives to unionize Farah Manufacturing Company, Inc. and the Yale Coop helped to shape the concept of the corporate campaign. But Rogers' thoughts and actions are as much influenced by his past as they are by Saul Alinsky and his book "Rules for Radicals." He directs the campaign against Stevens directors adhering to Alinsky's proposition that "it is not man's 'better nature...
...relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. "My brother told me to drop the price to $225,000 and it would sell," confessed Edie Beale, fille, 60. It did, to buyers just as famous: Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn of the Washington Post. "It's not in very good shape," said Bradlee. "But it will be fun to get it back into the lovely shape that...