Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copson has successfully freeze-dried mushrooms, carrots, beef rib and sirloin steak, veal cutlets, pork chops, lobster, shrimp, strawberries and several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
...principal powers now remaining have each pursued a different, and often faltering, path to the inevitable future. Pragmatic Britain, whose colonies range from the dense, forbidding forests of the west, where few whites live, to the Scottish-like highlands of the European settlers in the east, has tried to shape its policy to the complexities of each situation. With frequent glaring mistakes, often hastily rectified (e.g., the highhanded exile of Uganda's Cambridge-educated Kabaka, "King Freddie," three years ago), the Colonial Office has sought, against opposition from both blacks and local whites alike, to hasten native self-government...
...door of his law office? Yes. yes. What had he done with his holdings? He had converted them into Government bonds. And at that point Nevada's Democratic Senator, the late Pat McCarran, leaned over with a pol-to-pol whisper: "Brownell, you're in a helluva shape if we don't confirm...
During the 52 months required to shape that record, schools and offices and courts of law across the U.S. began to realize that Herbert Brownell. 62nd Attorney General, may very well turn out to be one of the best-and the one who will leave the most lasting impression upon his nation's legal history. The process of realization was slow and painful: Herbert Brownell, longtime master political planner, had to prove the hard way that he was worthy of being Attorney General Brownell...
With only two meets remaining before the important Yale match, the varsity tennis team will attempt to stay in shape in the face of oncoming exams and reading period assignments by playing what should be little more than a practice contest with Cornell tomorrow and another match against Penn this Tuesday, at Penn...