Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court looking for Pauline, who then charged out in a man's size 44 trunks (she takes a woman's size 12), a sweater dyed a "nauseating orange," only one shoe, and a raincap flopping on her red hair. Her racket was warped to about the shape of a spoon. The slapstick tennis lesson began...
...worlds was Russia's act, not the U.S.'s. Speaking from the steps of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, on Independence Day, Harry Truman branded Russia's action "folly." Said he: "We have learned that nations are interdependent." If there is to be peace, nations must shape their policies "to support a world economy rather than separate nationalistic economies." As the greatest industrial nation of the world, the responsibility for that kind of peace devolved...
...Because we were following the objects at roughly the same altitude, we can't say anything about their shape except that they were thin and were smooth on the bottom and rough-appearing...
Meteorites can be ruled out, Mather continued, because the gravitational pull of the earth fashions them into a pencil shape. Also they have an entirely different trajectory from that attributed to the discs, and once inside the atmosphere they invariably collide with the earth...
...Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel...