Word: shapelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer Dr. Lehmann's workers attacked a shapeless mound near one of the larger buildings. Back in Manhattan last week, Archaeologist Lehmann described the results. Under the rubble they found a well-preserved stucco floor which had been painted red and later green. This, they decided, was the storehouse for votive gifts. Some of the gifts were still there, imbedded in cracks in the floor. Among them were a gold ring, a large silver nail, parts of gilded bronze statues. The style of the building showed that it dated from pre-Greek times, when the Great Gods were...
...children he has jokes and candy. He cheers the men ("You're a bright boy; you should try and write stories to keep yourself busy") and joshes the women. "Ah, my pretty doll," he may say, "you're looking wonderful today." To an old crone with a shapeless, corroded face he will sing, "You are my sunshine...
...Thing rocketed straight out from the brink of the falls, dropped into foam, bounced into view once or twice, then vanished in the mist. A few minutes later it bobbed free of the boiling water, just as Hill had predicted, but it had been broken to a tangled, shapeless mass. Hill was gone. His mangled body was recovered 16 hours later near the pier of the famed Maid of the Mist sightseeing boat...
...plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which it lives; another fish mimics weeds even to the point of having white dots which look like worm spots...
...Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), a prizewinning bestseller, was a vivid picture of life in the starving south Italian town to which Levi was exiled by Mussolini in 1935. His second book, Of Fear and Freedom, a rambling philosophical essay on man's fate, was as diffuse and shapeless as Eboli was graceful and compact...