Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold them. When we do that, there isn't a way in God's world that we can keep John Lewis and Phil Murray from coming in for more wages and getting them. It will kick right back on the farmer in the shape of more costs for labor and machinery. He won't have a thing more when it's all over. But we'll all have been on a hell of a merry-go-round...
Weeks went by while he mercilessly pounded his army into shape. In London and Washington the High Command conferred. Egypt must beheld. Supplies poured in to the Eighth. On Oct. 23 Montgomery attacked...
...Schmid, Marine cap perched jauntily, stepped off a train on to the windswept Philadelphia station platform. His mother and father were there to meet him. So was Ruth Hartley. He could not see the tears in their eyes, but he heard their voices. He laughed when he felt the shape of Ruth's hat pressing against...
...even an exhaustive one; it does not try to be. What it tries, it succeeds in admirably: it gives a mature, sensible, credible and moving picture of a well-known world that is little known in literature, a world that, more than any other, gives this century its characteristic shape...
...child, sleeping now in the dark and gathering strength for the struggle of birth, I wish you well. At present you have no proper shape, and you do not breathe, and you are blind. Yet, when your time comes, your time and the time of your mother, whom I deeply love, there will be something in you that will give you power to fight for air and light. Such is your heritage, such is your destiny as a child born of woman-to fight for light and hold on without knowing...