Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize school's important, and I try to do well, but I don't get bent out of shape over it," he says. "But I'm pretty obsessive about hockey...
...will be fewer plumbers and more electricians than the free market would dictate. If a tax break goes to timber but not to steel, investment flows out of the steel industry and into the timber industry. In either case, the Government is overriding the free market and dictating the shape of the economy just as surely as if it did so directly. Except that doing so directly is called "socialism" (or at least "industrial policy"), whereas doing the same thing through tax breaks is called "a pro-business attitude...
Even when Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after...
...past glory, radar is facing its most perilous assault ever. All the major military powers are working on stealth technologies designed to defeat radar. The U.S. Air Force's new B-2 Stealth bomber, for example, is supposedly almost invisible to radar because its sleek shape and special composite construction tend to absorb rather than reflect electronic signals. The same techniques will soon be used to introduce stealth missiles, ships, satellites and tanks. Moreover, military designers have developed missiles and other weapons that can zero in on electronic signals and thus destroy the ships and planes carrying radar. Faced with...
...What has been the focus in the past five yearshas been putting the collection in shape andmaintaining a professional look, as well asseeking endowments for curatorships and generallyputting the museums down on sure footing," Walshsaid...