Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty of problems to solve before it realizes its full promise. River channels, locks and navigation facilities are badly outdated, need to be modernized before industry can get the most out of the Ohio as a new route to market. Much of the highway system is in even worse shape. The Ohio valley's population, with one of the lowest per-family incomes ($1,391 a year) in the entire U.S., needs to be trained to operate modern industry's new machines. But no businessman doubts that it will be done. Said a Kaiser Aluminum official: "What we have here...
...lapse should give the varsity enough time to get in shape after the exam lay-off--if only it can get by Boston University in the opening round. The team visits Providence Saturday night to play Brown in its second Ivy League contest. The Bruins will be reinforced for the second half of their schedule by high-scoring linemen Bill Sepe and Ed Allard...
Even so, Britain's emotional and economic ties with the Commonwealth might well have kept Britain on the sidelines but for the coincidence that, just as the Common Market was being hammered into shape, two "good Europeans" took over the crucial jobs in Britain-Macmillan as Prime Minister and Peter Thorneycroft as his .Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Make no doubt of it, we are behind the Free Trade Area," said Thorneycroft...
Pope Pius XII, 82, gravely ill two years ago, underwent a periodic physical, was pronounced to be in "more than satisfactory" shape...
...Pufnam; $4.50), takes its readers on a Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage and Sicily, insults the majesty...