Word: shape
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...content: it simply wishes to stop Asian brush wars. Unlike the isolationists of the thirties, the new isolationists lack positive doctrine or a coherent and alternative foreign policy. Even if war is the essence of international relations, as some theorists contend, the new isolationists still must consider how to shape the imposing economic and diplomatic presence of the U. S. abroad. This has also become the central ambiguity for Nixon in trying to work out a new sense of world mission or patching...
Dawson said he lost interest in football over the summer and showed up for preseason camp out of shape. He quit saying, "I just don't want to play football anymore...
About the same time Huey Long and Eugene Talmadge were coming to power, country music was evolving its unique sound, each feeding on the same poor white traditions. Without question discs pressed for political organizations by country musicians helped to shape the ideology of the still new audience...
...multidisciplinary science of human settlements he calls Ekistics, he foresees the gradual evolution of "Ecumenopolis"-a world city formed by overlapping megalopolises. If present trends continue, he says, the world city will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...
...Sailing is a lazy sport," he says. "You just sit around and drink beer. If you exert yourself it's for all of ten minutes. I have to run and lift weights to stay in shape for football...