Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary Marshall's idea of basing our European defense line in the Pyrenees has been opposed by French national interests. Since the idea first took shape in Paris the French have been understandably miffed at the thought of their country becoming "expendable." A military guarantee to France might erase this objection, and then the way would be clear for the State Department to accept Franco's fascism and his strategic nation...
...coaching staff did not go into the question of game strategy until last night. But probably the same unit will take the field against Army as faced Cornell, with the fullback post a toss-up between Chip Gannon or Paul Shafer. Hal Mofile is far enough back into shape to assume full-time duties once more in the second backfield...
...before the Brigade Aptitude Board, consisting of senior officers and a psychologist, who investigate the case thoroughly, and then pass it on to higher channels involving the Commandant, Superintendent, the heads of all academic departments, and finally the Secretary of War. It can only be imagined what sort of shape this process leaves the suspected student in, but one might guess that his dynamic qualities might be even more impaired in the course of investigation...
Wrote Geoffrey Gorer, British anthropologist and journalist, in the Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
Even the two architects who had designed Moscow's Red Army Theater, in the patriotic shape of a five-pointed star, came in for trouble. The star-shaped theater had proved "both expensive in construction and seriously inconvenient...