Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shocked and frightened, the world bristled at its bristling statesmen. Who was guilty, and why? Somewhere within the maze of contradiction was the "real" nature of international relations, the "real" shape of the future...
...Kangaroos, blowfish and pelicans use flexible sacs. "The material rather than the shape is the critical factor . . . it must be light, strong, flexible and impervious. . . . Now in . . . aluminum and magnesium we have the means." Storage tanks have been built with flexible roofs of these metals. A slight difference between outside and inside atmospheric pressure balloons the roof...
...Eggshells do not fall apart at the slightest tap of a spoon because the oval shape distributes the force of the blow around the whole egg. The Navy's Quonset huts-similarly curved-have survived winds of more than 100 m.p.h., including Williwaws in the Aleutian Islands...
Coach Harlow isn't going to be caught napping, however; this season's Crimson squad may not be a second '41 machine, but It's a pretty fair team that's rounding into shape in the daily closed practice sessions at Soldiers Field...
Wolfe's crowded and tumultuous sen tences shape themselves naturally into rhapsodic verses. Most ambitious poem in the collection is the eleven-page This Is Man, a portrait of the human creature whom "it is impossible to scorn." More winning are the lyrics about the seasons and the weather and their way with man on the earth he loves...