Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian Pressman Ross Munro, a veteran of Dieppe, Tunisia and Sicily, cabled from London: "The Allied second-front force is taking shape in the United Kingdom. But it appears probable that British, Canadian and American troops here will spend this Christmas in Britain. Talk that an invasion might be launched before the year-end can be pretty well brushed aside...
They agreed to agree on the postwar shape of Europe: on the means and extent of control in Germany; on the enforced breakup of the Greater Reich, first by restoring Austria's independence; on the interests to prevail in the Balkans, where both Russia and Britain have great stakes; and, by silent implication, on control of Russia's European borderlands (eastern Poland, Bessarabia, the Baltics). And they agreed to agree on a postwar association of nations, otherwise undefined, "for the maintenance of international peace and security...
Honorable members laughed and cheered. Winnie was in top form, and his subject was absorbing: a new house for the House of Commons, to replace the one lost by bombs May 10, 1941; one with bigger galleries for press and public, better ventilation, modern lavatories. But not another shape or a bigger floor. The century-old, oblong (75 ft. by 45 ft.) hall with its high ceiling, oak paneling and green, leather-covered facing benches accommodated 476 of the 615 members, and in the Prime Minister's view that was just right...
...Parker began his work, social service people considered the Salvationists as human refuse collectors, had slight use for the idea that the Gospel could rehabilitate a man. Not so Convert Parker. He got up early mornings to chalk Scripture texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw rotten eggs, refuse. Says Parker reminiscently: "They had a lot of vitality...
Crime 251, War 145. The story took shape at a crawl, at first looked more Ellery Queenish than it was. But when the last replate went to bed at 3 a.m., the News had its picture and coverage with only one gap in it: there was nothing much about Patricia's husband, R.C.A.F. Cadet Wayne Lonergan...