Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club, two admirals and their wives gave a little party to commemorate the dissolution of Joint Army-Navy Task Force No. i, which staged Operation Crossroads at Bikini. An East St. Louis (111.) group of bakers sent a cake, made out of tiny angel-food puffs, in the shape of an atomic explosion. Vice Admiral W.H.P. ("Spike...
Stern stood pat on his offer of a, 12% general increase. Said he sternly: "Since 1936 ... we have had a gun pointed at our head, in the shape of a strike threat, at every Guild negotiation. This year, the gun was not only pointed but cocked before we even sat down...
Coach Rip Engle's forces, on the other hand, absorbed a merciless 49 to 0 drubbing at the hands of Yale last weekend, and the Brown team came off in bad shape. Tackle Lou Flick was sidelines, reserve quarterback Hank Pilote took a beating, and the Bruin guards came off very much the worse for wear...
Ralph Petrillo and Leo Flynn, the two most doubtful members of the Crimson's injury list on Monday, returned to the Varsity lineup yesterday in shape for scrimmage, and Flynn's running was the offensive standout of a contact session between the "B" eleven and the Junior varsity...
With Clementine, Director Ford has accomplished more than an intelligent retelling of a hoary yarn. His camera sometimes pauses, with a fresh, childlike curiosity, to examine the shape and texture of a face, a pair of square-dancing feet, a scrap of desert landscape or a sunlit dusty road. The leisurely lens-a trick Europeans frequently overdo and Hollywood seldom attempts-makes some of Ford's black-&-white sequences as richly lifelike as anything ever trapped in Technicolor...