Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland, the Balkans, France and China last week the tone, the temper, and even the social and political contours of a new freedom were taking shape. Well might Americans rub the sleep from their eyes and wonder what this new freedom in Europe and Asia would mean to their old freedom. It was too soon to tell. But one fact was inescapable: the world war was not over, but the postwar world was here...
...Russian Government, which does recognize the De Gaulle Government, sent a Minister Plenipotentiary. He too moved into a hotel. His official quarters were in worse shape than the British. Reason: the Germans had used the Embassy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics as a labor exchange...
...this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace on any hush-hush, pussyfoot basis. . . . That world organization must be the work of many minds. No one man, or three or four men, can shape it. Some 60 nations, great and small, must help shape it, believe in it, join it, and make it work...
Coach Henry Lamar is rounding his "A" squad into shape for the quartet of encounters which the team will face on successive Saturdays, starting this week with a meeting with Tufts. Together with assistant mentor Floyd Stahl, Lamar has been drilling the gridmen on tricky offense and defense tactics...
...John O'Reilly expected to find a shambles when they reached the New York Herald Tribune's old office at 21 rue de Berri, home of the tourist-loved Paris Herald. Instead they found their bureau's prewar business manager, Renee Brasier, whisking the office into shape and talking plans for future work. Triumphantly she led them to the composing room. "There, cleaning up forms and oiling linotype machines, were mechanical employes of the paper, some of whom had worked for it since...