Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Competitive spirit," according to Davis, makes a ball player. Had he seen any prospects on the Harvard club? Jack Wallace looked pretty good to the B-team coach. "I get a real kick out of coaching, and it keeps me in shape for baseball." At that point the genial CPO went off to pitch batting practice for his charges on the B team...
Before the end of 1944 every German now in France will be killed, made prisoner or obliged to flee. It is up to ourselves to shape our future...
Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder...
First observers in the port were aghast at the destruction. Major General Cecil Ray Moore, chief engineer of ETOUSA, said Hennecke had "knocked hell out of the port," but insisted it was "in better shape than I expected." But he emphasized that Cherbourg had been mainly a passenger port, received only a negligible amount of freight (155,000 tons in 1938, contrasted with 1,300,000 for the little canal port, Caen), could not be compared with Naples. Now it was up to the rebuilders to step up its capacity...
...these unnatural surroundings he works long furiously busy hours. He has had to give up horseback riding, which he loves. To keep in shape, the precise, 54-year-old General tumbles-a strenuous precise gymnastic sport at which he shines...