Word: angular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week these blokes will be asking themselves: did we get anywhere? One of them, an angular little man from one of the little countries, as shy of quotation as he is great in diplomacy, said: "Perhaps. Perhaps we did." He looked down at his pale clasped hands and said: "We might have failed, and we didn't. We know now that it may work...
Sferic's antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
...luck takes the angular form of Lauren Bacall, who is cast as a British coal tycoon's bored daughter. It is unhappy casting. The Bacall publicity has plainly pushed the young woman too far too fast. Neither a great beauty nor a great actress, her voice and facial expressions, both limited, soon grow monotonous. She is not even the interesting personality which careful direction made of her in To Have and Have...
...were clamoring for release of soldiers to mine coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
Against the walls were stacked scores of the most controversial paintings in the world. The plotters sat in an uncubistic circle. As their breath congealed in the frigid studio air (which Picasso's tall, elegant stove failed to thaw), a multi-planed, reclining nude regarded them with an angular...