Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whiling away time in the Aleutians by whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam of "the sea of junk around...
...have its hoped-for effect. The pound steadied in the London money market, rose from $2.78¼ to $2.78⅝ Speculators who had been selling the pound short in the belief that it might be devalued, began withdrawing from the attack. Further indirect support is almost certain in the shape of a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, possibly as high as $700,000,000, to help finance Britain's foreign trade...
...SHAPE adviser on international affairs. Soon after Eisenhower became President, MacArthur was recalled to Washington, named State Department counselor. On his office wall hang two cherished Christmas presents: Eisenhower oils of Washington and Lincoln...
...calls it "a good team with a great player on top," and predicts another "hair-raising season like last year." The team will have to work to get through the season unbeaten, and, says Barnaby, "we are starting right now getting ready for Navy. If we can stay in shape over exam-period and avoid any injuries, we might make...
...that size is a stimulus that takes up market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards such as Kaiser's Vancouver, Wash, yard are being put into shape in anticipation of just such an overflow of orders-provided that the shortage in steel plate can be licked. "The shipbuilding industry will have to operate at 30% to 40% of its potential," says Leigh Sanford, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America, "if we don't get enough...