Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, Mr. King's determined effort to shape the new world satisfies an emergent, self-confident Canada's sovereign aims. His position squares with 1) Canada's claims to a seat on future Pan American councils, 2) the fierce intranationalism of ardently isolationist French Canada, which has always supported Mr. King's noncommittal policy toward the Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there...
Winner of his sixth and last world championship 38 years ago, Slosson leaves his home for Boston's 20th Century billiard parlor every noon. He wears a long-sleeved sweater and limits himself to 200 points a day. As soon as he feels he is back in shape, he plans to move to Manhattan and take up teaching again...
Assisting Floyd Stahl in the job of whipping the green group into baseball shape will be intramural chief Adolph Samboski...
...Problem of Tomorrow. At the same time the Times's London bureau chief, James B. Reston, managed to send through censorship several articles reporting concern that the U.S. is not taking a leading role in defining the shape of postwar Europe. He noted that "the great power of Soviet Russia in the political field is active, while the power of the American Republic is much more passive. . . . The silence of the United States on (European) topics is a source of a considerable amount of questioning" among Allied diplomats who must plan for the future...
Across the damp, dark face of southern Russia, a vast and portentous victory took shape. At a mile an hour, the front rolled towards the Black Sea. Fifty German divisions were in retreat. Hushed, frightened Bucharest babbled of peace...