Word: shapped
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...professors drew a shap distinction between Senator Nixon's fund and that of Governor Stevenson, and ended by starting that Nixon had "set a vicious example...
...family concession to U.S. unwillingness to get their name straight. Another branch of the family, living in Louisiana, keeps the French pronunciation, "Shap...
Among other disciplines it was necessary to learn to do without sleep. This was because he lived with wealthy, sophisticated Tibetan Minister Tsarong Shapé, and was much entertained. Tsarong Shapé and his set, who lived in modern houses with radio and plumbing, liked to eat seven-hour meals, go to horse races, nine-hour plays, shoot dice, and talk about such things as amateur photography...
...Beanlands, suddenly dowered by widowhood with money and a chance to gesture, thought it would be romantic to make a non-stop flight from England to Hong-Kong. Adventurer Wilmot Shap, eyeing her fortune, encouraged her, went along as navigator, hoped the trip would end in a wedding. Pilot Jimmy Wreaks, scarred and one-eyed from crashes, went because he was paid to fly the ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing...
They divided the last sandwiches; Mrs. Beanlands and Shap trudged off through the desert to find help; Jimmy sat and waited. They never came back. After several days Jimmy nearly despaired. Then clouds of migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might...