Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of Gilpin's "deuces-wild science," believes that "Gilpin's reading of the American experience is essentially sound" and observes that many of the predictions about the U.S. have been fulfilled. He notes further that geopoliticians who followed Gilpin "groping among inscrutables to make out the shape of the future, all ended by deciding that Russia would be momentous...
...answer is: plenty. The Album of American History is an eyeful of the artifacts which early Americans shaped and used and which (to the degree that things shape people) shaped the early Americans. The book contains 411 pages of houses, ancestors, Indian scalps, weathervanes, mousetraps, cannon, dolls, ships, skillets, forts, bells, barn locks, cradles, fans, whaleboats, powder horns, figureheads, quadrants, wigs, sugar tongs, smokehouses, privies, churches, fire engines, nursing bottles, grease buckets, saltcellars, muskets, paper money, tombstones, waterwheels, spurs, scissors,jugs, bookplates, teapots and a thousand other objects from buggies to tavern signs. It is a big book with white...
...primer fact about U.S. political opinion in February 1944 was its fluidity: no political pectin had appeared to jell the opinion into a shape...
Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
...Exhaustion" put Office of Defense Transportation Boss Joseph Eastman into a Washington hospital last week. His deputy, Brigadier General Charles D. Young, could not have been in much better shape. As the week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...