Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight in the south may be tougher. Allied victory there is sure, but the shape of victory depends to some extent on the Germans' choice. They may put up a prolonged display of Götterdämmerung fireworks in the mountains of Bavaria and Austria; or they may fizzle out like a wet cannon-cracker...
Bailey's bridge, designed for speedy building, is nothing more than a large-scale erector set. It consists of interchangeable, prefabricated steel panels which can be swiftly put together in almost any shape. The panels are held together by steel pins stuck through ready-made holes. The only tools needed are a few standard wrenches. Six men can carry the heaviest panel...
...cold certainty that only power counts (said he once of the Pope, "How many divisions has he got?"). It was an equally natural extension of President Roosevelt's recent assertion that the U.S. intends not only to take a responsible part in world affairs but to shape the decisions for which it shares responsibility. For Winston Churchill, the doctrine of trusteeship was insurance that a Britain exhausted by the war will have a position in keeping with Britain's needs...
...Shaping Up. Still Zhukov hesitated before Berlin, waiting while the whole line assumed the same curving shape it had held on the Vistula, on the Dnieper. Along the Oder, Red Army engineers split boxlike German windmills to build barges for their tanks...
...auspicious day for naval air forces and a turning point in the Pacific War. But on that day high-ranking officers, one after another, trooped out on the top "deck" of the concrete headquarters building at Makalapa, overlooking Pearl Harbor, focused their binoculars on a grey shape across the loch, by Ford Island. The Essex, first of America's post-Pearl Harbor battle carriers, had arrived to take her place in the battle line. Soon her sister ship, now named Yorktown instead of Bon Homme Richard, and a first cousin, the Lexington, would follow...