Word: shapelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point Igor Stravinsky stood up, stuffed his black cigarette holder in his pocket, jammed his shapeless little hat on his head, and stalked from the office. That ended the negotiations...
...employing momentous events as a backdrop for Eliot's neurotic strivings for cheap success never comes off. To bring it off requires more than making a character tune in on the depressing broadcasts of that day every few pages and glibly crediting the hero with a "premonition of shapeless disaster...
...Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the acrid era of flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains. "You could always tell a photographer," he recalls. "One hand would be bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict...
...them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation had cut his weight in half, and gangrene had turned his feet into shapeless lumps...
Side by side on the black bank, the steaming locomotives lay helplessly. Their crews, except for one engineman, were dead. Around them, like spilled matchsticks, were the baggage car (six dead) and the twisted Pullmans. In one, a rabbi whose legs were pinned under shapeless rubble murmured prayers for the injured and dying. Near him, a Red Cross worker chattered and sang to a blur of protruding arms and legs and bloodstained pillows while she tried to free her hand from a crushing weight. In another mess of metal, a soldier whose uncle lay dead near his feet quietly sipped...