Word: shapelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, in Brighton, officials were battling a comparatively tiny but potentially far deadlier invader-epidemic smallpox. Compared to the sprawling, shapeless influenza blight, it was easy to pin down. The lethal virus had been brought to Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent...
...paddy field in Korea last week, a squad of G.I.s fresh from San Francisco got their first look at a dead North Korean Communist soldier and his battle equipment. It was not an impressive sight. The enemy's uniform was a shapeless affair of sleazy green cloth, with string pockets crudely sewed onto it to hold camouflage of leaves or branches. At his side lay a 7.62-mm. Russian rifle, roughly similar to the U.S. Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle...
...like the Vietnamese." His rifle was propped against the seat beside him. Every mile along the road a French fortress of brick and bamboo dominated the countryside. Between them we passed patrols of bearded men, four or five in a group, wearing jungle-green uniforms and broad-brimmed, shapeless felt hats, snaking in single file along the hillside...
...strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 153 Ibs.) Carol Channing is ludicrously miscast. Her head, topped by an unruly peroxide burlesque of a flapper's hairdo, seems too small for her generous features. Set insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please. Her big voice glides effortlessly from a low moo to an assured squeak; her huge, heavily lashed eyes roll dramatically. In a monstrous travesty...