Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sprint between the fat figure of U.S. plenty and the gaunt shape of world hunger still seemed a losing race. Despite record wheat exports-3,374,000 tons from Jan. 1 to May 10-on May 10 the U.S. was nearly 1,000,000 tons behind its colossal goal: 6,000,000 tons before June 30. For the first ten days of May the U.S. had paced itself for 333,000 tons, only 105,000 tons had actually sailed from U.S. ports. And never before had the per capita food consumption of U.S. civilians been higher: 14% above prewar years...
...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...
...Real Jazz, Panassie tells us hot music is a finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment...
Valuable shipping time has already been lost. Two-thirds of Canada's Great Lakes steamships were tied up last week. Coal dealers' stockpiles were dwindling rapidly, in some cases had already vanished. The railroads were still in good shape, with a two months' coal supply on hand. And be cause Canada's great hydro-electric plants are capable of producing all the electric power needed, there had been no brownout...
Concentrating on the more immediate problem of getting his crew in shape for Saturday's race with MIT, Coach Tom Bolles had his charges working on time trials yesterday afternoon. "The results were not wholly satisfactory," he reported...