Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, the Giants got rid of him. In Boston, patient Manager Billy Southworth told Big Bill to work himself into shape, let him know when he felt ready...
...bosses were New Jersey's Frank Hague, Chicago's Ed Kelly, and National Chairman Bob Hannegan. They took scores of delegates into Room H and introduced them to Harry Truman. From time to time snatches of conversation drifted out: "I think we got California in shape," "Don't worry too much about Alabama," etc. TIME'S story ran for eight columns in the issue of July 31, 1944, and it took the work of a dozen good political reporters to fit all of its complicated parts together...
...prevented just as surely as they are provoked and therefore we who fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...resurgent Germany, France has a newer and more immediate fear of Russia. A French official summed it up this way: "For the Soviet Union, the strategic situation has changed radically this year. Three things have happened: ERP was voted during a U.S. election year, Western Union began to take shape, the U.S. embarked on a rearmament policy. And one thing has not happened-the U.S. economic crisis, on which the Russians counted. So Russia can no longer figure that time is on her side. If Russia wants at any time to go to war, or if Russia thinks...
George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in good shape, but by the skin of their teeth. On their way to the Derby they suddenly took a detour, after an ill wind had slammed down a tree on an auto ahead of their...