Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Camels & Crutches. The flat valley land on both sides of the road into Taiyuan was a forest of pillboxes of every shape and size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...
...went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann and Marquis Childs, all out on the same limb. Chicago's Journal of Commerce, in its "final" edition, referred to "President-elect" Dewey and was full of such heads as "New Regime Must Shape Trade Policy...
...plague struck Joe Gardella, fullback and captain of the 1940 squad. Minor bruises throughout the season had benched Gardella for a day or two, but a severe muscle bruise in the Princeton game sidelined him until the Yale finale, for which the Crimson medical staff doctored him into shape to the surprise of the Elis...
...Bruins have been unable to stop any Crimson eleven, but Brown now sports a six game winning streak which every man on the Bruin eleven is determined to increase this afternoon. Injuries have just about disappeared on the Brown team and every first string squad member is in top shape for the skirmish with the exception of Captain Norm lacuelo, who has been out all season with a torn knee ligament. Quarterback Ed Finn and end Ted Hendrick have been named by Coach Engle as the game co-captains for today's tussle...
...Crimson was considerably weakened by the indefinite sidelining of Captain Frank Powell because of injuries. Gordie Stensrud will probably handle Powell's regular chores at right guard. Otherwise the squad is in good physical shape for the contest...