Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the shape of the world was being discussed and voted on in London, the shape of British bowlers got an earnest going-over...
...Gardenville's streets on last winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark, sinister shape fashioned out of the moving void...
Pointing for the Yale match, Thomas will try to keep his squad in shape during examination periods...
...revolution. The nation was baffled and dismayed by battles at the economic barricades, by sniping from the housetops. No one could accurately foretell how or when the economic upheaval would end. But already a new set of economic forces, the demands of peace, were giving the economy a new shape. It would not be the shape which the nation and its businessmen had known...
Despite its smattering of genuine McCarey touches, "The Bells of St. Mary's" suffers both by its similarity and inferiority to the 1944 Academy Award Winner; it is a more shadow of "Going My Way," partaking of its shape but not its substance...