Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still another Communist offensive, directed by General Liu Po-cheng, the "one-eyed dragon," was taking shape in the vital Yangtze Valley. Nationalist troops moved in & out of Hankow daily; the city's mayor, recalling how the Japanese took Hankow by a surprise attack from the rear in 1937, said hopefully: "I think there is no way for the Communists to come into Hankow." It was not even certain that the Communists would...
Greece's Prince Peter, 39-year-old anthropologist (and cousin of King Paul), was still in good shape after sampling the native customs of Manhattan. In the U.S. for a lecture tour, the Prince and his pretty Princess Irene submitted themselves to a subway ride and hot dogs at a Times Square stand-up counter. They then returned to the Ritz-Carlton...
...Supreme Court, the road's fixed charges were cut to a mere $1.5 million a year, compared to the previous $13 million. The capitalization was scaled down from $447 million to $327 million. Farrington thought that the Rock Island was finally in good enough shape to live up to the old song...
Said Farrington: "We're in excellent shape, financially and physically. Unless we do something silly, we ought to get along all right...
...John Quincy Adams, who died at 80 as a Congressman, had an eye for the female form. (Excerpts from his diary: Miss Frazier "has what is called a genteel shape"; Miss Cazneau "has nothing in her person to recommend her but a very good shape. . . . Mrs. Jones . . . exhibited an arm . . . which might fire the imagination of a sensual voluptuary...