Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowning a Winner. Later that day, a mass of 200.000 Indians squatted on the ground while Nehru and his Russian guests appeared on a rostrum built in the shape of a white pagoda. To great cheers the Russians raised Nehru's arm in the manner of a referee crowning a winner. A choir of schoolchildren sang Indians and Russians Are Brothers, written especially for the occasion. From the balcony, Nikolai Bulganin praised the "five principles of coexistence" agreed upon by Nehru and Red China's Chou Enlai. "We are allies in a great struggle for peace throughout...
...College Door. The most promising door opened for Funston in 1944, when Trinity College, its finances in poor shape, desperately needed a president who was a salesman, educator and administrator rolled into one. At 33, Funston became one of the youngest college presidents in the U.S., immediately took a leave of absence for a year and a half to serve in the Navy as a lieutenant commander working on contract termination. At one of his first faculty meetings on his return, Funston explained his credo: "Gentlemen, in order to be successful, you must look successful." He had the grounds landscaped...
...HAVEN, Nov. 15--Yale's football team, plagued by injuries before the last two Harvard games, "is in good shape this time," Eli coach Jordan Olivar asserted today...
Waiting for the trip home, Columbine's commander, Lieut. Colonel William G. Draper, who flew Ike at SHAPE, kept his eight-man crew in peak sharpness. They flew around Denver at least four hours a week (minimum: 30 hours monthly), made at least one weekly round trip to Washington at the 13,000-to-15,000-ft. altitude planned for taking the President home. "A flying plane," said Pilot Draper, "is a safe plane...
...what lovely women do when they stoop to folly. They do not-in McCarthy books-smooth their hair with automatic hand and put a record on the gramophone. They are the gramophone. They come out of the clinches monologizing as they attempt to rearrange reality in a more comfortable shape, pat the pillows and make a man wish he had curled up instead with a good book. Old-fashioned readers may feel that Author McCarthy is adopting the classic line of the British morale officer detailed to lecture the troops on the perils of venereal disease...