Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, confused days of moving and readjustment were past. The official mourning for Franklin Roosevelt was over. Now a new pattern of life in the White House took shape. Once again, as under the Roosevelts, the White House was a home for an active, happy family...
...every week at San Francisco made it clearer that beneath the rivalries, the petty legalisms and the quibbling in committee rooms lay real problems related to the real world outside. The tough material which the delegates were trying to shape into a world organization had been baked hard in history's furnace. That it yielded at all to the necessities of the future was because every nation present, from Russia to Ecuador, wanted peace and recognized a United Nations organization as an indispensable instrument for getting...
...staff general, Wedemeyer tirelessly studied China's beaten, war-weary, underfed, ill-armed, wretchedly conscripted army of 300 divisions which had to be whipped into shape. It was backed by a blockaded, withered economy producing some 10,000 tons of steel a year, supported by a transport system lacking a single effective railway, and equipped with less than 5,000 obsolescent trucks. It held a front almost 1,500 miles long. Its weapons were an international hodgepodge. But the invincible fact was that somehow this massive army existed, and somehow it fought...
...China's industrial weakness attempting to support 300 divisions (the U.S. maintains only about 100). China's able Minister of War, General Chen Cheng, saw the point. Within seven months, from the amorphous mass of the Chinese Army a hard core of elite troops began to take shape...
Although Shepherd Hall was never actually condemned by the municipal authorities according to Biggar, he stated that it was in such poor shape that an unrealistic amount of renovation would have been necessary to put it in a permanently usable condition, and that reconstruction would not have been worthwhile...