Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Market. The exact shape of the new Sino-Russian relations in Manchuria were still not clear. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at a notable press interview (see above), admitted that in "informal" talks the Russians had asked the Chinese Government for additional economic concessions in Manchuria...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the atomic...
Once again Wyndol Gray, all-America court star from Bowling Green, will lead the Crimson attack; Harvard rooters expect him to surpass his twice-achieved single-game score of 25 points. All of his starting teammates are also ready for action, with playmaker Saul Mariaschin back in top shape again after his thrilling bad-ankle performance in the Yale game...
...world war as partners on the side that won it. Debtors, most of them for decades, they suddenly found themselves too rich for comfort, with some $4 billion in credits on the exchanges of the world. What they would do with it, what they could do with it, would shape the pattern of hemisphere life...
...begun to bore him. His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...