Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balance of Peace. "I am more concerned over the Japanese situation than almost any other," T.R. said after the Treaty of Portsmouth. "Thank heaven we have the Navy in good shape." Into the White House trickled a stream of intelligence reports that Japan was preparing to attack the Philippines, or Panama, or both, indicating, too, that many European powers were not averse to balancing off new Japan against the emergent might...
...research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time as seen through an astigmatism-correcting lens. Where the cardinal had appeared elongated and distorted, he now appeared normal; where the cardinal had leaned forward almost falling off his chair...
Operators of dry-cargo tramp steamers are in even tougher shape. With transatlantic shipping rates at a postwar low ($3.10 per ton for coal v. $16 per ton a year ago), many shipowners are going $10,000 to $20,000 in the red on each voyage. And like tankermen, Greek tramp operators are busy laying up vessels, have already mothballed about 20% of their ships. Altogether, the Greeks control a 5,500,000-ton fleet comprising half the world's tramp tonnage...
...Shape of Life. The viewpoint is convincingly Negro; yet Cille, the heroine, is a light-skinned outcast who can see both races with a pariah's eyes. In the novel's collisions between black and white, mockery cuts both ways...
...group. He is still as fond of attractive women as he was in his bachelor days, has squired a collection of them through Europe. Kis current favorite is dark, stately Penelope Kitson, 34, a British divorcee and mother of three children. Still healthy and vigorous, Getty keeps in shape with a daily round of calisthenics, dyes his hair, has had his face lifted in a London clinic. He drinks sparingly of dark rum in Coca-Cola, constantly munches chocolates, does not smoke, and does not like others to smoke in his presence...