Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial front, factory foremen are the top sergeants, the voice of management in the shop. Many U.S. industrialists were concerned when a foreman's union took shape (TIME, March 29). They breathed easier when NLRB ruled last May that the Wagner Act does not apply to foremen. But last week the up-&-coming Foreman's Association of America proved that the foreman problem is far from settled...
...major task would be to find ways & means to achieve its policy. Mr. Schultz, one of the delegates, took part in the general discussion. Then, with a dozen other businessmen & women he sat up till 3 Sunday morning as our ways & means committee to put these plans in shape. When he rose at that last hour, it was to present his own plan with the committee's support...
...middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...outfit's top men met, there was no need for explanations for General Hoicomb's retirement. He was still in good physical shape, could still do his day's stint in the field. But he had reached the retirement age of 64 last August. Tommy Holcomb had always insisted that Commandants should walk, not be wheeled out of office. Only the insistence of the Commander in Chief had kept him on the job beyond the legal limit...
From rugged Epirus eastward through the towering Pindus range to the plains of Thessaly, Greek met Greek. The presence of the Nazi clouded the issue, but did not hide the fact that the killing of Greeks by Greeks had to do with the shape of postwar Greece. Underground leftists fell upon rightists and middle-of-the-roaders.* Adventurers mingled with zealots, monarchists tangled with republicans, professional soldiers fought guerrilla bands. The Germans alone profited from the mellay...