Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of this total warfare has not been kept from the U.S. people. But it has reached them in such isolated and shapeless gobbets, and it has been so blurred by emotionally colored dispatches from Free China, that only the jigsaw pieces have been visible, and not their whole picture. That picture indicates that the Japanese are more successful than is generally thought...
...wrinkled little face stared up from a shapeless bag of black hair. Acid burns had disfigured the baby gorilla's face-its look was malevolent. But the baby, named Buddy, was sick...
...hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl who used to take pride in her legs will wear either seamless (i.e., shapeless) cotton stockings made from coarser, short-staple cotton, or knee-length "campus hose," or nothing...
...Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers of the ashes of Lenin's widow; he now can face Lenin's death mask in his office. For Lenin was now a shapeless memory, a symbol of Moscow, of life itself...
...Besides, they're so shapeless that they make girls look like men," she exclaimed, "and women will find out soon that men don't like them that...