Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coulter knew that he had a tough job ahead to get the T.P. & W., which had been on its way to the junk heap, back in shape. "We've got it going now," said he last week. "But I feel that the railroad is still on the spot...
...three days, Colorado's Eugene Millikin had been on his feet defending the income-tax reduction bill that his Senate Finance Committee had whipped into shape. Armed with a huge loose-leaf notebook crammed with statistics, he made his replies to colleagues' questions short, sure and pithy. He turned back Democratic efforts to postpone the tax bill, to nationalize the community-property provision of some states, to raise individual exemptions. Millikin's able defense of the bill ended in complete victory. The Senate passed it, 52 to 34, without amendment...
...trees. The trees were burning, and there were flickering pools of flame on the gasoline-soaked ground. Nothing moved. Torn sections of dura-luminum, shards of glass, smoldering seat cushions, broken instruments lay scattered for a hundred yards, but there was nothing to suggest the great machine's shape or purpose. Rags of clothing, women's purses hung with shocking festiveness high in trees. For a hundred feet the ground was littered with charred shoes, letters, broken suitcases, and fountain pens...
...dinners, so from time to time the gas had to be turned off again. But in the park a milling crowd of 10,000 cheered lustily in the hot sun as the big gas bags, their sides painted with advertisements of the local brewers and corsetiers, began to take shape like elephants rising from...
Author Burns is at his best when remembering the shapes, sounds and smells of Naples, Algiers and Casablanca. His sections dealing with Naples' huge VD hospital and an evening spent in a homosexuals' hangout are first-rate. But too much of the best writing is descriptive reporting that does little to advance Gallery as a novel. Characters, good & bad, are used to prove a point or to support an emotional stand. With all its unevenness, Gallery shows more promise than most U.S. novels of World War II. But like many soldiers who came back itching to write...