Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt went further. He outlined in general terms an entirely new form of aid to Britain. At a press conference, after telling newsmen that there was "no news today." he held forth in monologue for 45 minutes. From it emerged the shape of his plan to aid Britain more directly without tangling in such political barbed wire as the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, for moves to amend either act would mean filiblustery months of debate in Congress while England was being bombed barren...
...such bad shape that a blow might have impaired his sight," explained McCoy's trainer. But Boston's dumfounded fight fans booed and whistled. Joe Louis recently agreed to defend his championship once a month-against second-raters like Red Burman, Gus Dorazio, Tony Novak, Abe Simon. If the rest of this series of fights-cooked up by his co-managers, John Roxborough, Julian Black, and Promoter Mike Jacobs-make Louis look as mediocre as he did in Boston, they may not work out badly for Messrs. Roxborough and Black. They had scheduled Louis for an outdoor fight...
...morning. That night he headed north, reached Washington the next chill, drizzly afternoon, at the White House again talked with Mr. Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then looking curiously at the White House. There rested their hopes, their problems, perhaps the shape of their fate. Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times. Mr. Roosevelt had asked for the job of dealing with just such a situation...
...staff economists, who want enough steel to handle defense and normal steel needs both. Mr. Tower has frequently boasted of the industry's readiness to handle any emergency without expanding. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler echoed him: "If ev erything in this country was in as good shape as steel to supply the national-defense program and England, there would be nothing to worry about." U. S. Steel President Ben Fairless last fortnight made capital of the 12,000,000-ton steel-ingot expansion which his industry has completed since Depression...
...will be the feature race of the evening, with Captain Frannie Powers and rookie Hun Curwen meeting the challenge of Rick Cutler, 1939 Crimson tank leader, Cutler has been swimming daily in the M. T. T. and Harvard pools, but Powers is in shape for the battle of his life...