Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would never lead another. Said he: "I hate like hell for this to happen so early. But I'll be all right. I'll see you back on States-side and we'll throw a whiz-dinger." Said the brigadier general: "No man in the shape he's in has a right to look so well and talk so normally...
FORTUNE then asked these people if a liberal G.O.P. platform would make them switch their vote, and a third of the 22.7% said yes. But in general the 22.7% seemed doubtful that the elephant could change his shape. Clearer than ever was the combination the Republicans had to beat: the war, and the impression that they are not progressive...
...again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape of a ship, and flower stalls packed with daffodils and mimosa. Sometimes Keats walked. Sometimes he puzzled over books in Italian. Sometimes he wrote to Fanny Brawne (the flirtatious girl he loved) or about her. Sometimes he talked about his unfinished work, said he would have become a greater poet than...
...been through the mill and has learned his business while he was being completely transformed into what you see in the picture. Look at his gear: it's worn (and obviously this isn't a posed picture), but it's all there and in good shape. A 'demoralized' soldier gets rid of his equipment the first thing. (You should have seen the Eyties.) He's carrying his weapon in the easy way you associate with experience and skill...
...have been waterborne, he once told Butcher that when his time came he was going to insist that his ceremonial coffin be built in the shape of a landing craft. Someone else can figure out the history part...