Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...region in the U.S. last week poured frantic reports of U.F.O.s-unidentified flying objects. This time, as the U.S. Air Defense Command tabulated reports (no fewer than 128), the sightings from preachers, military personnel, engineers and just plain folks were not restricted simply to flying saucers. The pronouncements seemed to shape into a sort of celestial dinner pail: the objects resembled eggs, meat platters, pears-and, for dessert, ice cream cones and cigars. ¶In the Levelland area of Texas, at least seven people sighted what may have been the same "Whatnik," a bright, egg-shaped thing that sped near...
...sources were careful to say that McElroy had not even called his personal aides to ask about the air-conditioned moon. "It surely is not surprising to anyone in the government," McElroy told reporters in Cincinnati. "We are already in a pressure program. Our program is in very good shape right...
...Schicklgruber-Hitler was delighted and Naziism began to take shape. That, at any rate, is the way Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl tells it. A sometime Harvard student (his grandmother was a New England Sedgwick) and longtime Hitler crony, Putzi* began supporting the Nazi Party in 1922 and labored to make it palatable to Germany's "best people...
...Crimson runners, but they offered no excuses. They did not attribute their defeat to the persistent run of illnesses which has victimized key members of the squad all fall. Even had Reider, Martin, and Willy Thompson the team's three convalescents at the moment), been in top shape, it does not appear that the varsity could have beaten its strong, well-balanced adversary from Cornell...
...Questioned about Reider yesterday, Coach McCurdy volunteered that he "should be a little stronger this week than last. . . . But then, I don't know," McCurdy added, by way of an after-thought. "How often can a runner come through like that when he's not really in good shape...