Word: angular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaspe the fishing boats still put out from the coves for cod and halibut. Tourists could also put out from the little bays for a day of deep-sea fishing for swordfish and tuna. Perce Rock still stood, angular and orange, out of the blue water. The thousands of birds still nested on Bonaventure Island...
Pestalozzi Village is the dream of Walter Robert Cord, 36, an ailing, angular Swiss editor, who has already raised a million Swiss francs ($234,000) or about a fourth of what he needs for the project. Trogen's town meeting voted him the eleven-acre site, overlooking Lake Constance. Swiss students volunteered their labor...
What was happening in Iowa City said one critic, should not happen even in a Manhattan museum. The State University had put on a summer show of 160 modern pictures, and there was not one old-fashioned landscape in the lot. Instead there were angular moderns, surrealist viscera and patterned streaks and splotches...
...discerning young Harvard man discovers, soon after moving into his college dwellings, that the angular, unpadded objects grandiosely labeled "room furnishings" offer excellent facilities for clothes-hanging and third degrees, but have few other practical uses. In order to secure a modicum of comfort he must supplement the University supplied furniture by making purchases in Cambridge or Boston. Unfortunately, furniture suitable to college rooms is not easily found and even when available can be acquired only by parting with a painfully large amount of money...
Clementine Paddleford, an angular, friendly and fortyish spinster, is "food markets editor" of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week, sniffing some savory news from afar, she flew out to Fulton, Mo. to see what was cooking, sliced herself a cut of the Churchill-Truman story...