Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other sparks flying to indicate what shape U.S. policy was gradually taking on the anvil of events. In Congress, a bill was introduced to give Puerto Rico-which has long demanded independence-the choice of three alternatives: independence, statehood or a new wrinkle, dominion status. And at a White House conference with Philippine President Sergio Osmena, an interested conferee was Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who has repeatedly said the U.S. must keep some of the Pacific bases which its Navy...
Within three months there should be enough bases to accommodate all the air units that can be sent from Europe. Okinawa, four times the size of Guam, promises to be a fine base, even better than preliminary U.S. appraisals indicated. Within six months the Philippines should be in shape to take all the ground forces which can be redeployed in that time for the invasion of the Jap heartland...
Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
Some Radcliffe girls may lose their shirts on Saturday if they lose the first annual Haines Trophy race against a combination Harvard civilian crew made up of former members of the first three boats. Radcliffe's coach is getting her Varsity in shape this week by running along the bank shouting pointers...
...Wagner. . . . Wagner's stage requires but one thing: Germans! .. [and] Germans themselves have no future." Nor did Hitler look deeply into the final cataclysmic scene of his beloved Götterdämmerung, for which Wagner himself had written the program note: "The will that wanted to shape an entire world according to its wish can finally attain nothing more satisfactory than . . . annihilation...